Religious dimensions of the self in the second century CE
By: edited by Jörg Rüpke and Greg Woolf
Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 76 = -- Studies and texts in antiquity and Christianity -- 76; Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 76.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783161522437
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Zelf; Aspect religieux; Self; Religious aspects; Christianity; Jaget; Religion; Individualité; Religiösa aspekter; Selbst; Religieuze aspecten; Identiteit; Christianisme; Philosophie
Notes: International conference proceedings, June 2010, Erfurt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

11 English, 2 German contributions.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking philosophical tradition --; title: Dualism and the seif in Plutarch's thought  -- Eran Almagor; title: Delimiting a self by God in Epictetus  -- Jula Wildberger; title: Religious Concepts of the self --; title: Two cities and one self : transformations of Jerusalem and reflexive individuality in the Shepherd of Hermas  -- Jörg Rüpke; title: Dressing for Church : tailoring the Christian self through clement of Alexandria's clothing Ideals  -- Harry O. Maier; title: Das "Selbst" in der valentinianischen Gnosis  -- Christoph Markschies; title: Justin Martyr in search of the self  -- Anders Klostergaard Petersen; title: Anna Van den Kerchove : self-affirmation and self-negation in the Hermetic revelation treatises --; title: Individuality, Selfhood and Power in the second century : The Mystagogue as a mediator of religious options  -- Richard Gordon; title: Second sophistic Perspectives --; title: Philosophical standards and individual life style : Lucian's Peregrinus/Proteus : Charlatan and Hero  -- Wolfgang Spickermann; title: Habitus Corporis : age Topoi in Lucian's Alexander or the false prophet and the apology of Apuleius  -- Dorothee Elm; title: Practices of the self --; title: Self-care and health-care : selfhood and religion in the Roman Imperial Elite  -- Zsuzsanna Várhelyi; title: Votive offerings and the self in Roman Athens  -- Elena Muñiz Grijalvo; title: Wege und Umwege zum Selbst : bildung und religion im frühen Christentum -- Peter Gemeinhardt-- General Index-- Index of sources.