Appropriation: A New Approach to Religious Transformation in Late Antiquity

Abstract In this article, I propose the concept of “appropriation,” widely used in cross-cultural contexts, as a new approach to the process of religious transformation in Late Antiquity. This approach has the advantage that it encompasses the entire spectrum of individual responses to the impact of...

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Main Author: Dijkstra, Jitse H. F. 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Numen
Year: 2021, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-38
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Late Antiquity / Religious change
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
BF Gnosticism
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B Lived Religion
B Appropriation
B Religious Transformation
B Human Agency
B Egypt
B Late Antiquity
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