Religion: Antiquity and Its Legacy

by Jörg Rüpke

Book Overview

What is a religion? What triggered the spontaneous development of distinct religions throughout the ancient world? How do religions evoke the ultimate realities they claim to address? Such questions are as evergreen as belief itself. The Hellenistic and Roman worlds were a fertile seedbed of the monotheistic faiths that dominate today's western image of religion, as well as many global conflicts. In this concise and elegant overview, Jorg Rupke...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780761708
• ISBN13: 9781780761701
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 192 Pages