History and the Study of Religion - Stowers, Stanley (Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus, Professor
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What is religion? How is religion constituted as a social entity? Is religion a useful category for historians, anthropologists, and sociologists? In History and the Study of Religion Stanley Stowers addresses these questions and discusses examples from ancient Greek, Roman, Judean and especially early Christian religion to illustrate a theory of religion as a social kind. He explains how ancient Mediterranean religion consisted of four sub-kinds: the religion of everyday social exchange, civic religion, the religion of literate and literary experts, and the religion of literate experts with…mehr

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What is religion? How is religion constituted as a social entity? Is religion a useful category for historians, anthropologists, and sociologists? In History and the Study of Religion Stanley Stowers addresses these questions and discusses examples from ancient Greek, Roman, Judean and especially early Christian religion to illustrate a theory of religion as a social kind. He explains how ancient Mediterranean religion consisted of four sub-kinds: the religion of everyday social exchange, civic religion, the religion of literate and literary experts, and the religion of literate experts with political power. Through these categories he shows how Christianity arose and succeeded.
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Stanley Stowers taught in the areas of ancient Mediterranean religion and philosophy and the theory of religion at Brown University from 1981 until his retirement in 2013. He has written five books and some sixty articles and chapters in books. He directed many dissertations in the areas of Christianity and religion in the Roman Empire, Hellenistic philosophy, and the study of religion.