Imagine no religion : how modern abstractions hide ancient realities / Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barton, Carlin A., 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Physical Description:

ix, 309 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Summary:

What do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad meanings of the Latin and Greek words religio and threskeia, frequently and reductively mistranslated as "religion," in order to explore the manifold nuances of their uses within ancient Roman and Greek societies. In doing so, they reveal how we can conceptualize anew and speak of these cultures without invoking the anachronistic concept of religion. From Plautus to Tertullian, Herodotus to Josephus, Imagine No Religion illuminates cultural complexities otherwise obscured by our modern-day categories. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction. What you can see when you stop looking for what isn't there

Religio without "religion"

The Ciceronian turn

Preface to Tertullian

Segregated by a perfect fear

Segregated by a perfect fear. the terrible war band of the anti-emperor: the Coniuratio and the Sacrementum

Governed by a perfect fear

Precarious integration. managing the fears of the Romans: Tertullian on tenterhooks

Imagine no Thrēskeia: the task of the untranslator

The Thrēskeia of the Judaeans: Josephus and the New Testament

Josephus without Judaism: Nomos, Eusebeia, Thrēskeia

A Jewish actor in the audience: Josephan doublespeak

A glance at the future: Thrēskeia and literature of apologetic, first to third centuries C.E.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823271191

0823271196

9780823271207

082327120X

OCLC:

933274031