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1 online resource (xi, 299 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum,
1436-3003 ;
76 = Studies and texts in antiquity and Christianity ;
76
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Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 76.
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| Note |
International conference proceedings, June 2010, Erfurt. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rethinking philosophical tradition -- Dualism and the seif in Plutarch's thought / Eran Almagor -- Delimiting a self by God in Epictetus / Jula Wildberger -- Religious Concepts of the self -- Two cities and one self : transformations of Jerusalem and reflexive individuality in the Shepherd of Hermas / Jörg Rüpke -- Dressing for Church : tailoring the Christian self through clement of Alexandria's clothing Ideals / Harry O. Maier -- Das "Selbst" in der valentinianischen Gnosis / Christoph Markschies -- Justin Martyr in search of the self / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Anna Van den Kerchove : self-affirmation and self-negation in the Hermetic revelation treatises -- Individuality, Selfhood and Power in the second century : The Mystagogue as a mediator of religious options / Richard Gordon -- Second sophistic Perspectives -- Philosophical standards and individual life style : Lucian's Peregrinus/Proteus : Charlatan and Hero / Wolfgang Spickermann -- Habitus Corporis : age Topoi in Lucian's Alexander or the false prophet and the apology of Apuleius / Dorothee Elm -- Practices of the self -- Self-care and health-care : selfhood and religion in the Roman Imperial Elite / Zsuzsanna Várhelyi -- Votive offerings and the self in Roman Athens / Elena Muñiz Grijalvo -- Wege und Umwege zum Selbst : bildung und religion im frühen Christentum / Peter Gemeinhardt -- General Index -- Index of sources. |
| Summary |
Hauptbeschreibung Did new senses of the self emerge in the High Roman Empire, and if so what were the religious corollaries? Were such changes connected to processes of institutional change? Could they usefully be described as ""individualisation""? These are the key concerns of the authors of this volume. They address the field of Hellenistic philosophy, medical texts and the literature of the so-called Second Sophistic, which all have been recruited to this debate. Most important, however, religious phenomena are included and brought to the fore. Thus the analysis of concepts of t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
11 English, 2 German contributions. |
| Subject |
Self -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Self -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Self -- Religious aspects.
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Self -- Religious aspects. |
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Ego (Psychology) -- Religious aspects.
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Ego (Psychology) -- Religious aspects. |
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Romerska riket. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Rüpke, Jörg.
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Woolf, Greg.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Religious dimensions of the self in the second century CE. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2013] 9783161522437 (DLC) 2013482252 (OCoLC)855530813 |
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9783161523519 (electronic book) |
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3161523512 (electronic book) |
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9783161522437 |
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3161522435 |
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1299831818 (e-book) |
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9781299831810 (e-book) |
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