New Antiquities

New Antiquities

Einband:
Fester Einband
EAN:
9781781795040
Untertitel:
Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond
Herausgeber:
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Anzahl Seiten:
320
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.02.2019
ISBN:
1781795045

Autorentext
Almut-Barbara Renger is Professor of Ancient Religion and Culture and their Reception History at the Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion at Freie Universitat Berlin. Dylan M. Burns is a research associate at the Egyptological Seminar of Freie Universitat Berlin.

Klappentext
Just as we speak of "dead" languages, we say that religions "die out." Yet sometimes, people try to revive them, today more than ever. New Antiquities addresses this phenomenon through critical examination of how individuals and groups appeal to, reconceptualize, and reinvent the religious world of the ancient Mediterranean as they attempt to legitimize developments in contemporary religious culture and associated activity. Drawing from the disciplines of religious studies, archaeology, history, philology, and anthropology, New Antiquities explores a diversity of cultic and geographic milieus, ranging from Goddess Spirituality to Neo-Gnosticism, from rural Oregon to the former Yugoslavia. As a survey of the reception of ancient religious works, figures, and ideas in later twentieth-century and contemporary alternative religious practice, New Antiquities will interest classicists, Egyptologists, and historians of religion of many stripes, particularly those focused on modern Theosophy, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Religious Movements, Magick, and Occulture. The book is written in a lively and engaging style that will appeal to professional scholars and advanced undergraduates as well as lay scholars.

Zusammenfassung
Drawing from the disciplines of religious studies, archaeology, history, philology, and anthropology, New Antiquities explores a diversity of cultic and geographic milieus, ranging from Goddess Spirituality to Neo-Gnosticism, from rural Oregon to the former Yugoslavia.


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