Studying religion, past and present : essays in honor of Panayotis Pachis /
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London : New York
Bloomsbury Academic,
2024.
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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.