Some (Premature) Births of Religion in Antiquity
Some (Premature) Births of Religion in Antiquity
This chapter explains that simply translating the word “religion” tends to leave the impression that the concept of religion was already operative before the modern era. It adds that there are some particular moments in antiquity that marked the beginning of the concept of religion or the “disembedding” of religion from the politico-religio-ethnic mixture of ancient life. These four moments include: the “Maccabean revolt” in the middle of the second century
Keywords: religion, antiquity, Maccabean revolt, Cicero, Eusebius, Islam
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