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Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians / Dale B. Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Dale B., 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Philosophy and religion--Greece.
- Philosophy and religion.
- Philosophy and religion--Rome.
- Superstition--Religious aspects--History--To 1500.
- Superstition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Dale Martin provides a detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the fourth century C.E.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Superstitious Christians
- 2 Problems of Definition
- 3 Inventing Deisidaimonia
- 4 Dealing with Disease
- 5 Solidifying a New Sensibility
- 6 Diodorus Siculus and the Failure of Philosophy
- 7 Cracks in the Philosophical System
- 8 Galen on the Necessity of Nature and the Theology of Teleology
- 9 Roman Superstitio and Roman Power
- 10 Celsus and the Attack on Christianity
- 11 Origen and the Defense of Christianity
- 12 The Philosophers Turn
- 13 Turning the Tables
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674040694
- 0674040694
- OCLC:
- 923110147
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