| Other author/creator | Kõiv, Mait, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Läänemets, Märt, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Dross-Krüpe, Kerstin, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Fink, Sebastian, 1982- editor. |
| Series |
Universal- und kulturhistorische studien = Studies in universal and cultural history
Universal- und kulturhistorische studien. ^A1450899
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| Contents |
Crisis in Early Religion - an Introduction / Mait Kõiv, Sebastian Fink -- The crisis of authentic Buddhavacana in Tipịtaka: Is Early Buddhist Sangha's Politics Responsible? / Siddharth Singh -- Prajñāpāramitā as a crisis-marker in Buddhism / Sergey Yu Lepekhov -- The involvement of Buddhist monks in the court intrigues in China and Japan during the fourth to the eighth centuries / Elena Lepekhova -- The Ugaritic Combat Myth and Egypto-Hittite Relations in the Late Bronze Age / Joanna Töyräänvuori -- Crises in the Hittite Religion: Examples of the Prayer of Kantuzili and Plague Prayers of Muršili II / Vladimir Sazonov, Jaan Lahe -- Divine justice and human competition: signs of crises in Archaic Greece / Mait Kõiv -- When oracles don't come true: Oedipus Tyrannus and oracular crisis / Tim Whitmarsh -- 'The Athenian 'plague' : religion, 'rationality', and ethics' / Elizabeth Irwin -- A crisis of 'atheism' in ancient Rome? On the perception of nonreligion as a threat in the Roman Empire / Alexandra Eppinger -- Crisis and transformation of Gnostic Christianity in late Roman and early Byzantine Egypt / Przemyslaw Piwowarcayk. |
| Abstract |
"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." -- Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 3658369884 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9783658369880 (paperback) |
