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Author:   Jörg Rüpke (, Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Centre, University of Erfurt, and Director of DFG-Research Group 'Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective')
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.798kg
ISBN:  

9780199674503

ISBN 10:   0199674507
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   29 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments 1: Jörg Rüpke: Introduction: Individualization as a concept for historical research Historical change 2: Corinne Bonnet: Individualization as an historical trend in the religion of Phoenician cities in Hellenistic times 3: John North: Disguising religious change in first-century Rome 4: Clifford Ando: Cities, gods, and empire Individual and society 5: Fritz Graf: Individual and Common Cult: Epigraphical Reflections 6: Greg Woolf: Ritual and the individual in Roman religion Experiences and choices 7: Richard Gordon: Religious anthropology of high magical practice in the Empire 8: Johan Leemans: The cult of the saints in Late Antiquity as a privileged locus for religious individualization Conceptualizing religious experience 9: Katharina Waldner: Dimensions of Individuality in Ancient Mystery Cults: Religious Practice and Philosophical Discourse 10: Nicole Belayche: Individualization and Religious Rhetoric in Imperial Anatolia Agency 11: Ian Henderson: Mark's Gospel and the Pre-History of Individuation 12: Tessa Rajak: Text, Prophesy, and the Individual in Hellenistic Judaism: Texts from Philo and Josephus 13: Jörg Rüpke: Fighting for Difference: Forms and Limits of Religious Individualization in the ""Shepherd of Hermas"" 14: Karen King: Literature as preparation for martyrdom Master and Disciple 15: Giulia Sfameni Gasparro: Religio mentis: Hermetic process of individualization 16: Giovanni Filoramo: The Discourse of Revelation as source for the Gnostic process of individualization Beyond the empirical individual 17: Aldo Setaioli: Cicero and Seneca on the fate of the soul: Private feelings and philosophical doctrines 18: Charlotte Fonrobert: The ritualization of the body in Roman Judaism: Individualization with a difference Index"

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The book should have something to offer anyone interested in the religions of antiquity (especially Roman imperial times), as well as those interested in the topic of the individual and the history of individualization. -Christian H. Bull, Numen, Brill

Author Information

Jörg Rüpke is Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Centre, University of Erfurt, and Director of the DFG-Research Group 'Religious Individualization in Historical Perspective'. He also an honorary Professor at Aarhus University.

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