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Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion

English · Hardback

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The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume brings together essays from an international array of experts in law and religion, in order to examine the public/private distinction in comparative perspective. The essays focus on the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Particular attention is given to the private exercise of religion, the relation between public norms and private life, and the division between public and private space and the place of religion therein.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke war von 1995 bis 1999 Professor für Klassische Philologie an der Universität Potsdam und von 1999 bis 2008 Professor für Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Europäische Polytheismen an der Universität Erfurt und dort Koordinator des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms Römische Reichs- und Provinzialreligion. Seit 2008 ist er Sprecher der DFG-Kollegforschergruppe Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive und Fellow für Religionswissenschaft am Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt. Seit 2011 ist er Honorarprofessor an der Universität Aarhus und im Jahr 2012 wurde er in den Wissenschaftsrat berufen.

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"[...] ein[es] sehr gelungenes[n] komparatives[n] Gemeinschaftswerk[es] [...]"
Wolfgang Spickermann in: Historische Zeitschrift, Band 304 (2017), 465-466
"In sum, the book consists of a fine collection of essays from which I have learned a great deal."
Anders Klostergaard Petersen in: BMCR 2015.12.12

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