Religion is closely linked to social development as it often serves as the ideological fundament of a society and one of the foremost expressions of its culture. The articles in this volume are devoted to the study of religious crisis in Anqituity and deal with these pheonomena in the Ancient Near East, Rome, Greece, China and India.
Author(s): Mait Kõiv, Märt Läänemets, Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Sebastian Fink
Series: Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History
Publisher: Springer VS
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 201
City: Wiesbaden
Contents
Crisis in Early Religion: An Introduction
Bibliography
The Crisis of Authentic Buddhavacana in Tipiaka: Is Early Buddhist Sangha´s Politics Responsible?
1 Introduction
2 Modern Scholars´ Views
3 Textual Description of Ānanda´s Offence
4 Ānanda´s Reply to the Offences
5 Mutual Relation of Ānanda and Mahākassapa
6 The First Buddhist Council as a Foundation of the Second Buddhist Council
7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Prajñāpāramitā as a Crisis-Marker in Buddhism
References
The Involvement of Buddhist Monks in the Court Intrigues in China and Japan During the Fourth to the Eighth Centuries
References
The Ugaritic Combat Myth and Egypto-Hittite Relations in the Late Bronze Age
Bibliography
Crises in the Hittite Religion: Examples of the Prayer of Kantuzili and Plague Prayers of Mursili II
1 Introductory Notes
2 The Signs of Religious Crises in the Hittite Prayers
3 Kantuzili and His God
4 The Laments of Mursili II
5 Crises, the Gods, and the Responsibilities of the King
References
Divine Justice and Human Competition: Signs of Crises in Archaic Greece
1 Gods and Justice in the Human World
2 The Crises in the World of Hesiod, Alkaios, Theognis and Solon
3 Continuity and Change in the Religious Expectations
4 Managing Competition: Social Background of the Religious Ideas
References
When Oracles Don´t Come True: Oedipus Tyrannus and Oracular Crisis
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`The Athenian `Plague´: Religion, `Rationality´, and Ethics´
1 Two Hippocratic Texts and their Challenge to the Religious Dimension of Disease
2 Case Study I: The Athenian Plague of 427 BC
3 Case Study II: Thucydides´ `Plague´
References
A Crisis of `Atheism´ in Ancient Rome? On the Perception of Nonreligion as a Threat in the Roman Empire
1 Terminological Considerations
1.1 `Atheism´
1.2 Ancient Concepts of `Godlessness´
1.3 The Sociological Concept of Nonreligion
2 Methodological Considerations
2.1 Social Act vs. Cognitive State
3 The Dangers of Nonreligion
4 Nonreligion and Crisis
4.1 Augustus´ Religious Policies
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Crisis and Transformation of Gnostic Christianity in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Egypt
1 Introduction
2 Problem of the End of Gnosticism in the Current Scholarship
3 Three Case Studies
3.1 On the Origin of the World
3.2 Pistis Sophia
3.3 P.Macq. 1
4 Conclusion
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