| New Antiquities: Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond Contributor(s): Burns, Dylan M. (Editor), Renger, Almut-Barbara (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1781795045 ISBN-13: 9781781795040 Publisher: Equinox Publishing OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | History - Religion | Spirituality - Religion | Ancient |
| Dewey: 299.93 |
| LCCN: 2017023210 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.70 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Just as we speak of "dead" languages, we say that religions "die out." Yet sometimes, people try to revive them, today more than ever. New Antiquities addresses this phenomenon through critical examination of how individuals and groups appeal to, reconceptualize, and reinvent the religious world of the ancient Mediterranean as they attempt to legitimize developments in contemporary religious culture and associated activity. Drawing from the disciplines of religious studies, archaeology, history, philology, and anthropology, New Antiquities explores a diversity of cultic and geographic milieus, ranging from Goddess Spirituality to Neo-Gnosticism, from rural Oregon to the former Yugoslavia. As a survey of the reception of ancient religious works, figures, and ideas in later twentieth-century and contemporary alternative religious practice, New Antiquities will interest classicists, Egyptologists, and historians of religion of many stripes, particularly those focused on modern Theosophy, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Religious Movements, Magick, and Occulture. The book is written in a lively and engaging style that will appeal to professional scholars and advanced undergraduates as well as lay scholars. |