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By John Scheid,Clifford Ando

ISBN-10: 0812247663

ISBN-13: 9780812247664

Roman faith has lengthy provided a few demanding situations to historians drawing close the topic from a viewpoint framed by way of the 3 Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred textual content that espoused its creed or provided a portrait of its foundational fable. They defined kinfolk with the divine utilizing technical phrases greatly hired to explain relatives with different people. certainly, there has been no longer even a notice in classical Latin that corresponds to the English notice religion.

In The Gods, the kingdom, and the Individual, John Scheid confronts those and different demanding situations without delay. If Roman spiritual perform has lengthy been brushed off as a cynical or naïve approach of borrowed buildings unmarked via any precise piety, Scheid contends that this can be the results of a lost expectation that the root of faith lies in an individual's own and revelatory dating together with his or her god. He argues that after seen within the gentle of secular heritage in preference to Christian theology, Roman faith emerges as a valid phenomenon during which rituals, either private and non-private, enforced a feeling of communal, civic, and country identity.

Since the Nineteen Seventies, Scheid has been some of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly knowing of historic Roman faith. The Gods, the nation, and the Individual offers a translation of Scheid's paintings that chronicles the improvement of his field-changing scholarship.

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