In Where God Was Born, Feiler discovers that at the birth of Western religion, all faiths drew from one another and were open to coexistence. Feiler's bold realization is that the Bible argues for interfaith harmony.

Weniger deutlich ist der positive Ertrag dieser Kritik. Die Beiträge des Bandes greifen die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Reichs- und Religionsentwicklung im vorchristlichen Imperium Romanum aus verschiedenen Perspektiven wieder auf.

Weniger deutlich ist der positive Ertrag dieser Kritik. Die Beiträge des Bandes greifen die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Reichs- und Religionsentwicklung im vorchristlichen Imperium Romanum aus verschiedenen Perspektiven wieder auf.

By moving beyond the dominant perspectives on the Greek past, this edited volume shifts attention to the ways this past has been constructed, performed, (ab)used, Hellenized, canonized, and ultimately decolonized and re-imagined.

These texts had been combined already in a Prophetic Record during the 9th c. B.C.E. (with A. F. Campbell), which was received as an integrated unit by the Deuteronomistic Historian.

In The Fifteenth Month, John F. Schwaller offers a detailed look at how the celebrations of Panquetzaliztli changed over time and what these changes reveal about the history of the Aztecs.

Funerary rituals and the cult of the dead are classics of research in religious studies, especially for ancient Egypt.

Robert A. Segal se v této knize na velmi skromné ploše pokouší seznámit čtenáře s možnými teoretickými přístupy ke zkoumání a výkladu mýtu napříč nejrůznějšími vědními obory: pojednává o sporu mezi vědeckým a ...

The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith ...

Explores 'polis religion' - a leading paradigm in current studies on ancient Greek religion - and shows ways of moving beyond it.