Rethinking Greek Religion by Julia Kindt

Rethinking Greek Religion by Julia Kindt

Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the ancient Greek city? With questions such as these, current scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis ('polis religion'). In this book Dr Kindt explores a more comprehensive conception of ancient Greek religion beyond this traditional paradigm. Comparative in method and outlook, the book invites its readers to embark on an interdisciplinary journey touching upon such diverse topics as religious belief, personal religion, magic and theology. Specific examples include the transformation of tyrant property into ritual objects, the cultural practice of setting up dedications at Olympia, and a man attempting to make love to Praxiteles' famous statue of Aphrodite. The book will be valuable for all students and scholars seeking to understand the complex phenomenon of ancient Greek religion.

'Kindt's book helps to prevent rigidities in the study of ancient religious material and to rehabilitate concepts like 'belief' or 'theology' that, once exempt from Christianising connotations, are useful to understand Greek religionSo its reading will doubtless be helpful for researchers [in] the field.' Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Sehepunkte

Julia Kindt is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. She has a doctorate in Classics from the University of Cambridge and was a Harper Schmitt Fellow, a Catherine Graham Fellow and a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. She has published widely on ancient Greek religion, oracles and divination, and Greco-Roman historiography.

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ISBN 13	9780521127738
ISBN 10	0521127734
Title	Rethinking Greek Religion
Author	Julia Kindt
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2012-08-02
Number of pages	256
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