Belief and cult : rethinking Roman religion / Jacob L. Mackey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackey, Jacob Louis, 1971- author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belief and doubt.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.) : 11 b/w illus.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'Belief and Cult' argues that belief isn't uniquely Christian but was central to ancient Roman religion. Drawing on cognitive theory, Jacob Mackey shows that despite having nothing to do with salvation or faith, belief underlay every aspect of Roman religious practices - emotions, individual and collective cult action, ritual norms, social reality, and social power.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Brief contents

Detailed Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: roman religion, from intuitions to institutions

Part I Theoretical Foundations

1 Losing Belief

2 Recovering Belief

3 Belief and Emotion, Belief and Action

4 Shared Belief, Shared Agency, Social Norms

5 Shared Belief, Social Ontology, Power

Part II Case Studies

6 Belief and Cult: Lucretius’s Roman Theory

7 Ad incunabula. Children’s cult as cognitive apprenticeship

8 The “Folk Theology” of Roman Prayer: Content, context, and commitment

9 Inauguratio: belief, ritual, and religious power

Epilog: Comparison, Explanation, and Belief

Glossary

References

Index Locorum

General Index

A note on the type

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 6, 2023).

ISBN:

9780691233147

0691233144

OCLC:

1291603229