How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities
by
Daniel Boyarin, Carlin A. Barton
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
What do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad meanings of the Latin and Greek words religio and thrēskeia, frequently and reductively...