Screen LibraryPublic and private in ancient mediterranean law and religion /
The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume examines the public/private distinction in the cultures and...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Religionsgeschichtliche versuche und vorarbeiten;
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume examines the public/private distinction in the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110367034 |
| Index Number: | KJA2170 |
| CLC: | D954.59 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Family, the Community and Murder: The Role of Pollution in Athenian Homicide Law / 2. Public and Private in Classical Athenian Legal Enforcement / 3. : Some Ancient Greek Theories of (Divine and Mortal) Mind / 4. Ista tua pulchra libertas: The Construction of a Private Cult of Liberty on the Palatine / 5. "M. Tullius aedem Fortunae August (ae) solo et peq(unia) sua" / 6. Making the Private Public: Illegitimacy and Incest in Roman Law / 7. Public and Private in Emergent Christian Discourse / 8. Staging "private" religion in Roman "public" Palmyra. The role of the religious dining tickets (banqueting tesserae) / 9. Can "Law" Be Private? The Mixed Message of Rabbinic Oral Law / 10. Between Public and Private: The Significance of the Neutral Domain (Carmelit) in Late Antique Rabbinic Literature / 11. Shame, Sin, and Virtue: Islamic Notions of Privacy / Contributors -- Index. |