Beyond Texts?: Potentials and Limitations of a Holistic Approach to Collective Fear in Mesopotamia/ANE
Collective fear - or more precisely, the coping and preventive behavior associated with collective fear - is a strong driving force in social, religious and political behavior. While collective fear may be a universal human characteristic, its stimuli, management, and prevention take different shape...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2021
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Die Welt des Orients
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 10-27 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BC Ancient Orient; religion HH Archaeology KBL Near East and North Africa TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
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| Summary: | Collective fear - or more precisely, the coping and preventive behavior associated with collective fear - is a strong driving force in social, religious and political behavior. While collective fear may be a universal human characteristic, its stimuli, management, and prevention take different shapes throughout time and space. This paper utilizes both texts, as the most obvious and ostensibly most direct sources and the archaeological record, which has not yet played a substantial role in the reconstruction of emotions. In this respect, this paper provides a methodological perspective on the matter of collective fear in the ancient Near East. It explores the potential of textual and material sources, the approaches that can be taken, and the insights we can gain with respect to the social and political structures of past societies of the ancient Near East, where emotions extended into the domains of power, politics and religion. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-9019 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Die Welt des Orients
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/wdor.2021.51.1.10 |