Religious Deviance in the Roman World: Superstition or Individuality?

by Jörg Rüpke

Book Overview

Religious individuality is not restricted to modernity. This book offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for the spectrum of religious practices and intensified forms of such practices only occasionally denounced as 'superstition'. Authors from Cicero in the first century BC to the law codes of the fourth century AD share the assumption that authentic and binding communication between individuals and gods is possible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107090520
• ISBN13: 9781107090521
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"