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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Auteur principal: Naerebout, Frits Gerard 1956- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Ruhr-Universität Bochum [2016]
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
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.
ISSN:2363-6696
Contient:Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.13154/er.v3.2016.BJ-CC