Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience

Herausgeber: Eidinow, Esther; North, John; Geertz, Armin W

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Produktbeschreibung

"For some time interest has been growing in a dialogue between modern scientific research into human cognition and research in the humanities. This ground-breaking volume focuses this dialogue on the religious experience of men and women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Each chapter examines a particular historical problem arising from an ancient religious activity and the contributions range across a wide variety of both ancient contexts and sources, exploring and integrating literary, epigraphic, visual and archaeological evidence. In order to avoid a simple polarity between physical aspects (ritual) and mental aspects (belief) of religion, the contributors draw on theories of cognition as embodied, emergent, enactive and extended, accepting the complexity, multimodality and multicausality of human life. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the chapters open up new questions around and develop new insights into the physical, emotional, and"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781009011600
• ISBN-10: 100901160X
• Artikelnr.: 69075344

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Esther Eidinow, Armin W. Geertz, Quinton Deeley, John North;
Part I. Ritual: 1. A cognitive approach to ancient Greek animal sacrifice
Hugh Bowden; 2. To the netherworld and back: cognitive aspects of the
descent to Trophonius Yulia Ustinova; Part II. Representation: 3. Ancient
Greek smellscapes and divine fragrances: anthropomorphizing the gods in
ancient Greek culture Esther Eidinow; 4. Belief, make-believe and the
religious imagination: the case of the Deus Ex Machina in Greek tragedy
Felix Budelmann; 5. Chanting and dancing into dissociation: the case of the
Salian priests at Rome Maik Patzelt; Part III. Gender: 6. The Bacchants are
silent: using cognitive science to explore the experience of the Oreibasia
Vivienne McGlashan; 7. Who is the Damiatrix? Roman women, the political
negotiation of psychotropic experiences, and the cults of Bona Dea Leonardo
Ambasciano; Part IV. Materiality: 8. Walls and the ancient Greek ritual
experience: the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis Michael Scott; 9.
Identifying symptoms of religious experience from ancient material culture:
the example of cults of the Roman Mithras Luther H. Martin; Part V. Texts:
10. Bridging the gap: from textual representations to the experiential
level and back Anders Klostergaard Petersen; 11. A relevant mystery:
intuitive and reflective thought in Gregory of Nyssa's representations of
divine begetting in the Against Eunomius Isabella Sandwell.