Religious competence and individuality: three studies in the Roman Empire

The theme of individuality and individualisation in religious contexts in the fairly remote past is perhaps best viewed as a heuristic device whose main value, at least in the context of Graeco-Roman history, is to question the excessive dominance of a model of religious action as essentially collec...

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Main Author: Gordon, Richard L. 1943- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2015]
In: Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 367-385
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Roman Empire / Religion / Individuality
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
TB Antiquity
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