Author: H. S. Versnel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004092662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This is the first of a two-volume collection of studies in inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. The first volume focuses on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism. The term 'henotheism' -- a modern formation after the stereotyped acclamation: #EIS O QEOS# ("one is the god"), common to early Christianity and contemporaneous paganism -- denotes the specific devotion to one particular god without denying the existence of, or even cultic attention to, other gods. After its prime in the twenties and thirties of this century the term fell into disuse. Nonetheless, the notion of henotheism represents one of the most remarkable and significant shifts in Graeco-Roman religion and hence deserves fresh reconsideration.
Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion. 1, Ter Unus
Author: H. S. Versnel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004092662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This is the first of a two-volume collection of studies in inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. The first volume focuses on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism. The term 'henotheism' -- a modern formation after the stereotyped acclamation: #EIS O QEOS# ("one is the god"), common to early Christianity and contemporaneous paganism -- denotes the specific devotion to one particular god without denying the existence of, or even cultic attention to, other gods. After its prime in the twenties and thirties of this century the term fell into disuse. Nonetheless, the notion of henotheism represents one of the most remarkable and significant shifts in Graeco-Roman religion and hence deserves fresh reconsideration.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004092662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This is the first of a two-volume collection of studies in inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. The first volume focuses on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism. The term 'henotheism' -- a modern formation after the stereotyped acclamation: #EIS O QEOS# ("one is the god"), common to early Christianity and contemporaneous paganism -- denotes the specific devotion to one particular god without denying the existence of, or even cultic attention to, other gods. After its prime in the twenties and thirties of this century the term fell into disuse. Nonetheless, the notion of henotheism represents one of the most remarkable and significant shifts in Graeco-Roman religion and hence deserves fresh reconsideration.
Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion
Author: H. S. Versnel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004092679
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This second volume of a two-part collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion focuses on the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004092679
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This second volume of a two-part collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion focuses on the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal.
Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion, Volume 2: Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual
Author: Henk Versnel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004296735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This is the second of a two-volume collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. While the first volume focused on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism, the present one discusses the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal. After an introduction to the history of the myth and ritual debate (with a focus on New Year festivals and initiation) in the first chapter, the second and third chapters discuss myth and ritual of reversal—Kronos and the Kronia, and Saturnus and the Saturnalia respectively; the fourth treats two women's festivals—that of Bona Dea and the Thesmophoria; the fifth investigates the initiatory aspects of Apollo and Mars. In the background is the basic conviction that the three approaches to religion known as 'substantivistic', functionalist and cultural-symbolic respectively, need not be mutually exclusive.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004296735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This is the second of a two-volume collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. While the first volume focused on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism, the present one discusses the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal. After an introduction to the history of the myth and ritual debate (with a focus on New Year festivals and initiation) in the first chapter, the second and third chapters discuss myth and ritual of reversal—Kronos and the Kronia, and Saturnus and the Saturnalia respectively; the fourth treats two women's festivals—that of Bona Dea and the Thesmophoria; the fifth investigates the initiatory aspects of Apollo and Mars. In the background is the basic conviction that the three approaches to religion known as 'substantivistic', functionalist and cultural-symbolic respectively, need not be mutually exclusive.
The Road to Daulis
Author: Robert Eisner
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815602101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Looks at how nine classical myths, including Oedipus, Electra, and Psyche are used to explain psychological theories, and assesses the validity of these comparisons.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815602101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Looks at how nine classical myths, including Oedipus, Electra, and Psyche are used to explain psychological theories, and assesses the validity of these comparisons.
Icon and Conquest
Author: Bernadette Bucher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608094007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608094007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Freud and Oedipus
Author: Peter L. Rudnytsky
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231063539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A reassessment of Freud's central concept of the Oedipus complex, using the interlocking perspectives of biography, intellectual history and Greek tragedy. The study establishes how Freud reached his formulation through his own self-analysis and clinical work.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231063539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A reassessment of Freud's central concept of the Oedipus complex, using the interlocking perspectives of biography, intellectual history and Greek tragedy. The study establishes how Freud reached his formulation through his own self-analysis and clinical work.
Consistency in Cognitive Social Behaviour
Author: C. J. Mower-White
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780710090287
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780710090287
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance
Author: R. A. Wicklund
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135060045
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Published in 1976, Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Psychology.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135060045
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Published in 1976, Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Psychology.
Culture and Human Nature
Author: Horace Kallen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000676455
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This volume illustrates Melford Spiro's explorations of key relationships among culture, society, and human nature. He addresses such fundamental issues as the limitations of cultural relativism, the problem of explanation in the social sciences, and the importance of a comparative approach to the study of social and cultural system.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000676455
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This volume illustrates Melford Spiro's explorations of key relationships among culture, society, and human nature. He addresses such fundamental issues as the limitations of cultural relativism, the problem of explanation in the social sciences, and the importance of a comparative approach to the study of social and cultural system.
Oedipus in the Trobriands
Author: Melford E. Spiro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351502476
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation -- a matrilineal complex -- different from Freud's Oedipus complex and the generalization regarding the restrictive provenance of the Oepidus complex to which it gave rise. Spiro undertakes a reanalysis of Malinowski's data and shows that there is enough to suggest the presence of a strong Oedipus complex. Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the Anthropology Department in 1968. His other works include Gender and Culture, Oedipus in the Trobriands, and Culture and Human Nature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351502476
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation -- a matrilineal complex -- different from Freud's Oedipus complex and the generalization regarding the restrictive provenance of the Oepidus complex to which it gave rise. Spiro undertakes a reanalysis of Malinowski's data and shows that there is enough to suggest the presence of a strong Oedipus complex. Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the Anthropology Department in 1968. His other works include Gender and Culture, Oedipus in the Trobriands, and Culture and Human Nature.