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Ausgabe:

Juli/August/2024

Spalte:

613-615

Kategorie:

Altertumswissenschaft

Autor/Hrsg.:

Eckhardt, Benedikt, Leonhard, Clemens, u. Klaus Zimmermann [Hgg.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Reinheit und Autorität in den Kulturen des antiken Mittelmeerraumes

Verlag:

Baden-Baden: Ergon Verlag (Nomos) 2020. 320 S. = Religion und Politik, 21. Geb. EUR 64,00. ISBN 9783956505058.

Rezensent:

Emmanouela Grypeou

This volume of collected essays in English, German, and French language is the product of a symposium on »Purity and Authority in Ancient Mediterranean Religions« which took place in Münster in 2016 as part of the excellence cluster »Religion and Politics«.

In the introduction to the volume, the editors discuss certain methodological considerations and provide a theoretical framework that connect the different contributions. They stress the importance of purity and impurity as structural elements in ancient religious traditions and the ways in which they control the physical presence of individuals in holy areas or other appropriate locations as well as their significance in regulating rules of everyday life and their consequences. Beyond the quotidian implications of ...


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