Reading the way to the netherworld: education and the representations of the beyond in later antiquity
Angaben zur beteiligten Person Tanaseanu-Döbler: Prof. Dr. Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler leitet das Institut für Religionswissenschaft an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Ihr Arbeitsschwerpunkt ist die Europäische Religionsgeschichte.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | German |
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Göttingen Bristol, C.T.
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
[2017]
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| In: |
Beiträge zur europäischen Religionsgeschichte (volume 4)
Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Beiträge zur europäischen Religionsgeschichte
volume 4 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Greek language
/ Latin
/ Late Antiquity
/ Literature
/ Hereafter (Motif)
B Church / Theology / Hereafter B Rabbinic literature |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Heaven B Education B History of religion B Conference program 2011 (Göttingen) B Classical antiquity B Life B Death B Hell |
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Cover (Verlag) Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Angaben zur beteiligten Person Tanaseanu-Döbler: Prof. Dr. Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler leitet das Institut für Religionswissenschaft an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Ihr Arbeitsschwerpunkt ist die Europäische Religionsgeschichte. Angaben zur beteiligten Person Nesselrath: Dr. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath ist ordentlicher Professor für Klassische Philologie in Göttingen. Angaben zur beteiligten Person Rebello: Merryl Rebello studiert Latein und Englisch an der Universität Göttingen. The volume focuses on the various representations of the Beyond in later Antiquity, a period of intense interaction and competition between various religious traditions and ideals of education. The concepts and images clustering around the Beyond form a crucial focal point for understanding the dynamics of religion and education in later Antiquity. Although Christianity gradually supersedes the pagan traditions, the literary representations of the Beyond derived from classical literature and transmitted through the texts read at school show a remarkable persistence: they influence Christian late antique writers and are still alive in medieval literature of the East and West. A specifically Christian Beyond develops only gradually, and coexists subsequently with pagan ideas, which in turn vary according to the respective literary and philosophical contexts. Thus, the various conceptualisations of the great existential unknown, serves here as a point of reference for mirroring the changes and continuities in Imperial and Late Antique religion, education, and culture, and opening up further perspectives into the Medieval world. |
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| ISBN: | 3666540309 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/9783666540301 |