Religious competition: is it a useful concept?
In recent years ‘competition’ has become an ever more popular concept in the study of ancient religions. Or should that be a label? Innovative concept or mere label: to come to a decision, we should ask some questions. What are the studies that advertise themselves as dealing with competition about,...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
[2016]
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Dans: |
Entangled Religions
Année: 2016, Volume: 3, Pages: [146-166] |
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Religious competition in the third century CE
/ Roman Empire
/ Religious pluralism
/ Competition
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RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions BE Religion gréco-romaine |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Competition
B Marketplace B Conflict B Rivalry B Contestation |
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Résumé: | In recent years ‘competition’ has become an ever more popular concept in the study of ancient religions. Or should that be a label? Innovative concept or mere label: to come to a decision, we should ask some questions. What are the studies that advertise themselves as dealing with competition about, what do people understand by it? Does competition do what it should be doing: provide some new interpretative framework, and, in the case of edited volumes, tie the different contributions together? In order to answer these questions, a fairly recently published volume (Rosenblum, Vuong & DesRosiers, 2014) will be analyzed in some detail and compared to some other publications that cover (or seem to cover) the same ground. |
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ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13154/er.v3.2016.BJ-CC |