Cognitive approaches to ancient religious experience /
"For some time interest has been growing in a dialogue between modern scientific research into human cognition and research in the humanities. This ground-breaking volume focuses this dialogue on the religious experience of men and women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Each chapter exami...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Ancient religion and cognition
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Table of Contents:
- A cognitive approach to ancient Greek animal sacrifice / Hugh Bowden
- To the netherworld and back : cognitive aspects of the descent to Trophonius / Yulia Ustinova
- Ancient Greek smellscapes and divine fragrances : anthropomorphizing the thropomorphizing the gods in ancient Greek culture / Esther Eidinow
- Belief, make-believe and the religious imagination : the case of the Deus Ex Machinain Greek tragedy / Felix Budelmann
- Chanting and dancing into dissociation : the case of the Salian priests at Rome / Maik Patzelt
- The bacchants are silent : using cognitive science to explore the experience of the Oreibasia, Vivienne McGlashan
- Who is the damiatrix? Roman women, the political negotiation of psychotropic experiences, and the cults of Bona Dea / Leonardo Ambasciano
- Walls and the ancient Greek ritual experience : the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis / Michael Scott
- Identifying symptoms of religious experience from ancient material culture : the example of cults of the Roman Mithras / Luther H. Martin
- Bridging the gap : from textual representations to the experiential level and back / Anders Klostergaard Petersen Anders Klostergaard Petersen
- A relevant mystery : intuitive and reflective thought in Gregory of Nyssa's representations of divine begetting in the Against Eunomius / Isabella Sandwel.