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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2022
      August 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009019927
      9781316515334
      9781009011600
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009019927
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 314 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.456kg, 314 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Religion, Church History
      Series:
      Ancient Religion and Cognition
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Religion, Church History
    Series:
    Ancient Religion and Cognition
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    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 cognitive aspects of ancient religions.

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    ‘… this volume makes important and interesting reading for all who are interested in learning more about ancient religious experience and rituals, and I personally greatly appreciated it …’

    Anne L. C. Runehov Source: Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology

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