Crisis in early religion / Mait Kõiv, Märt Läänemets, Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Sebastian Fink, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kõiv, Mait, editor.

Läänemets, Märt, editor.

Dross-Krüpe, Kerstin, editor.

Fink, Sebastian, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien 2524-3799

Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien = Studies in Universal and Cultural History, 2524-3799

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions--History.

Religions.

Civilization, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 198 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2022.

Contents:

1 Crisis in Early Religion – an Introduction

2 The crisis of authentic Buddhavacana in Tipiòtaka: Is Early Buddhist Sangha's Politics Responsible?

3 Prajñāpāramitā as a crisis-marker in Buddhism

4 The involvement of Buddhist monks in the court intrigues in China and Japan during the fourth to the eighth centuries

5 The Ugaritic Combat Myth and Egypto-Hittite Relations in the Late Bronze Age

6 Crises in the Hittite Religion: Examples of the Prayer of Kantuzili and Plague Prayers of Murésili II

7 Divine justice and human competition: signs of crises in Archaic Greece

8 When oracles don’t come true: Oedipus Tyrannus and oracular crisis. - 9 'The Athenian 'plague' : religion, 'rationality', and ethics'

10 A crisis of 'atheism' in ancient Rome? On the perception of nonreligion as a threat in the Roman Empire

11 Crisis and transformation of Gnostic Christianity in late Roman and early Byzantine Egypt.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 7, 2022).

ISBN:

9783658369897

3658369892

Publisher Number:

99992596596

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.