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Religious dimensions of the self in the second century CE / edited by Jörg Rüpke and Greg Woolf.

Contributor(s): Rüpke, Jörg | Woolf, Greg
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, German Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum: 76.Publisher: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xi, 299 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783161522437 (pbk.); 3161522435 (pbk.)Subject(s): Self -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Self -- Religious aspectsBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Rethinking philosophical tradition -- Dualism and the seif in Plutarch's thought / Eran Almagor -- Delimiting a self by God in Epictetus / Jula Wildberger -- Religious Concepts of the self -- Two cities and one self : transformations of Jerusalem and reflexive individuality in the Shepherd of Hermas / Jörg Rüpke -- Dressing for Church : tailoring the Christian self through Clement of Alexandria's clothing Ideals / Harry O. Maier -- Das "Selbst" in der valentinianischen Gnosis / Christoph Markschies -- Justin Martyr in search of the self / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Self-affirmation and self-negation in the Hermetic revelation treatises / Anna Van den Kerchove -- Individuality, Selfhood and Power in the second century : The Mystagogue as a mediator of religious options / Richard Gordon -- Second Sophistic Perspectives -- Philosophical standards and individual life style : Lucian's Peregrinus/Proteus : Charlatan and Hero / Wolfgang Spickermann -- Habitus Corporis : age Topoi in Lucian's Alexander or the false prophet and The apology of Apuleius / Dorothee Elm von der Osten -- Practices of the self -- Self-care and health-care : selfhood and religion in the Roman Imperial Elite / Zsuzsanna Várhelyi -- Votive offerings and the self in Roman Athens / Elena Muñiz Grijalvo -- Wege und Umwege zum Selbst : bildung und religion im frühen Christentum / Peter Gemeinhardt.

"The contributions are based on papers presented at a workshop held in the Augustinerkloster of Erfurt in June 2010."--page viii.

11 English, 2 German contributions.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

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