Imagine No Religion : How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
082327120X
ISBN-13
9780823271207
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Imprint
Fordham University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 3rd, 2016
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
618 grams
Dimensions
18.10 x 25.40 x 2.90 cms
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A study of ancient Latin and Greek words frequently translated religion with a view to showing how such mistranslation seriously obscures our understanding of those cultures including their Jewish and Christian versions.
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 threskeia, 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.
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