Studying religion, past and present : essays in honor of Panayotis Pachis /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Roubekas, Nickolas P. (Nickolas Panayiotis), 1979- (Editor), Xygalatas, Dēmētrēs (Editor), Martin, Luther H., 1937- (Editor), Wiebe, Donald, 1943- (Editor), Pachis, Panayotis (honouree.), Berner, Ulrich, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : New York Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Edition:1.
Series:Scientific studies of religion (Bloomsbury (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Religion(s) and the ancient world.
  • From Nergal to Heracles : methodological problems in the study of intercultural influences between the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean / Asterios-Evangelos Kechagias
  • Slaves and religions in the ancient world : a comparative approach / Kostas Vlassopoulos
  • The scientific study of Graeco-Roman religions / Luther H. Martin
  • Greek mythology in European religious history / Ulrich Berner
  • On definition, theories, and disciplinary cooperation : towards a modern study of ancient Greek and Roman religion / Nickolas P. Roubekas
  • Part II: New approaches to ancient ideas and practices.
  • The history of Graeco-Roman religions in the light of cultural evolution : a computational text analysis of ancient Greek inscriptions / Vojtech Kaše, Tomáš Glomb
  • What neurocognitive theories may offer to history and the study of religion : the paradigm of the plague of Athens / Olympia Panagiotidou
  • Monarch to god to devil : the many lives of King Faunus through the ages / Leonardo Ambasciano
  • Jesus and Asklepios : cognitive perspectives on the miraculous / Jennifer Larson
  • Macrohistorical aspects of the Constantinian shift : climatic change, pandemics, and the rise of Christianity / Aleš Chalupa
  • Part III: The study of religion, past and present.
  • Critical theory of religion : from antiquity and the Graeco-Roman period to modernity / Ioannis S. Petrou
  • From Pettazzoni to Bianchi : the felix tempus of the history of religions in Italy (with the addendum of the correspondence between Ugo Bianchi and Panayotes Pachis) / Ennio Sanzi
  • Much ado about nothing : the concept of "religion" yet again / Anders Klostergaard Petersen
  • Mysticism in four dimensions : neurological, physiological, psychological, and cultural expectation-modulation / Armin W. Geertz
  • Did the "new atheists" contribute to or undermine the scientific study of religion? / Donald Wiebe
  • Why we need an integrative approach to the study of religion / Dimitris Xygalatas
  • Addendum:
  • The planets in Mithraism / Roger Beck.