A01=Carlin A. Barton
A01=Daniel Boyarin
ancient religion
Author_Carlin A. Barton
Author_Daniel Boyarin
Category=QRAB
Category=QRAX
Category=QRVG
christianity
Cicero
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fear
Josephus
Judaism
reciprocity
Religio
Tertullian
Threskeia
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- ISBN 9780823271207
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Fordham University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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What do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad meanings of the Latin and Greek words religio and thrēskeia, frequently and reductively mistranslated as "religion," in order to explore the manifold nuances of their uses within ancient Roman and Greek societies. In doing so, they reveal how we can conceptualize anew and speak of these cultures without invoking the anachronistic concept of religion. From Plautus to Tertullian, Herodotus to Josephus, Imagine No Religion illuminates cultural complexities otherwise obscured by our modern-day categories.
Daniel Boyarin is the Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Imagine No Religion (2016), A Traveling Homeland (2015), and The Jewish Gospels (2013).
