Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was at the heart of—Roman religionBelief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniquely Christian but was central to ancient Roman religion. Drawing on cognitive theory, Jacob Mackey shows...

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Main Author: Mackey, Jacob L. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2022]
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505 8 0 |t Frontmatter 
505 8 0 |t Brief contents 
505 8 0 |t Detailed Contents 
505 8 0 |t Preface 
505 8 0 |t Acknowledgments 
505 8 0 |t Abbreviations 
505 8 0 |t Introduction: roman religion, from intuitions to institutions 
505 8 0 |t Part I Theoretical Foundations 
505 8 0 |t 1 Losing Belief 
505 8 0 |t 2 Recovering Belief 
505 8 0 |t 3 Belief and Emotion, Belief and Action 
505 8 0 |t 4 Shared Belief, Shared Agency, Social Norms 
505 8 0 |t 5 Shared Belief, Social Ontology, Power 
505 8 0 |t Part II Case Studies 
505 8 0 |t 6 Belief and Cult: Lucretius’s Roman Theory 
505 8 0 |t 7 Ad incunabula. Children’s cult as cognitive apprenticeship 
505 8 0 |t 8 The “Folk Theology” of Roman Prayer: Content, context, and commitment 
505 8 0 |t 9 Inauguratio: belief, ritual, and religious power 
505 8 0 |t Epilog: Comparison, Explanation, and Belief 
505 8 0 |t Glossary 
505 8 0 |t References 
505 8 0 |t Index Locorum 
505 8 0 |t General Index 
505 8 0 |t A note on the type 
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