RT Book
T1 Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience
T2 Ancient Religion and Cognition Ser.
A1 Eidinow, Esther
A2 Geertz, Armin W.
A2 North, John
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1816359483
AB Explores the religious rituals and beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome, using modern research into human cognition.
AB Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Funder Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Religious Experience -- The Context -- The Process -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part I Ritual -- Chapter 1 A Cognitive Approach to Ancient Greek Animal Sacrifice -- Introduction -- Greek Animal Sacrifice: Four Examples -- The Rituals of Sacrifice -- Killing -- Divination -- Activities at the Altar -- Eating -- Interim Conclusions -- Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible -- The Importance of Smell -- Smell and Memory -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 To the Netherworld and Back: Cognitive Aspects of the Descent to Trophonius -- Preparation for the Katabasis -- Myths of Trophonius -- The First Impression of the Sanctuary -- The Preliminary Stage of the Ritual -- The Descent to Trophonius: The Route to the Grotto -- In the Oracular Grotto -- Pausanias' Account -- Plutarch's Account -- The Return from the Grotto -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Part II Representation -- Chapter 3 Ancient Greek Smellscapes and Divine Fragrances: Anthropomorphizing the Gods in Ancient Greek Culture -- Introduction: Sensing Divinity -- Divine Appearances -- Forming God Concepts -- Grounding the Greek Gods -- The Smell of the Divine -- Divine Smellscapes -- Divinities Smelling -- Divine Smells and Embodied Religion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Belief, Make-Believe, and the Religious Imagination: The Case of the Deus Ex Machina in Greek Tragedy -- Belief and Make-believe -- Variation: Deus Ex Machina and Ritual Impersonation of the Divine Compared -- Faith, Obedience, Trust -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Chanting and Dancing into Dissociation: The Case of the Salian Priests at Rome -- Embodied Techniques of Experience: The Dissociative Mind.
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SN 9781009027359
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