The Gods, the State, and the Individual. John Scheid

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      University of Pennsylvania Press

      Originally published as Les Dieux, l’État et l’individu: Réflexions sur la religion civique à Rome ©2013 Éditions du Seuil.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Scheid, John, author.

      [Dieux, l’état et l’individu. English]

      The gods, the state, and the individual : reflections on civic religion in Rome / John Scheid ; translated and with a foreword by Clifford Ando.

      pages cm. — (Empire and after)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-8122-4766-4 (alk. paper)

      1. Religion and state—Rome. 2. Cults—Rome. 3. Rome—Religion. I. Ando, Clifford, translator, author of foreword. II. Scheid, John. Dieux, l’état et l’individu. Translation of: III. Title. IV. Series: Empire and after.

      BL805.S3413 2016

      292.07—dc23

      2015016157

       To the memory of Jean-Pierre Vernant

      Non pas passer les universaux à la râpe de l’histoire, mais faire passer l’histoire au fil d’une pensée qui refuse les universaux.

      —Michel Foucault

      Contents

       Translator’s Foreword

       Preface

       Introduction

       Chapter 1. The Critique of Polis-Religion: An Inventory

       Chapter 2. Polis and Republic: The Price of Misunderstanding

       Chapter 3. The Individual in the City

       Chapter 4. Civic Religion: A Discourse of the Elite?

       Chapter 5. Civic Religion and Identity

       Chapter 6. For Whom Were the Rituals Celebrated?

       Chapter 7. Religious Repression

       Chapter 8. Civic Religion, a Modality of Communal Religion

       Chapter 9. Emotion and Belief

       Chapter 10. Why Did Roman Religion Change?

       Chapter 11. The Gods, the State, and the Individual

       Notes

       Index

       Acknowledgments

      Translator’s Foreword

      John Scheid’s The Gods, the State, and the Individual: Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome is an impassioned intervention in a contemporary debate in the study of ancient religion. It speaks for a method or, perhaps, a perspective, as well as a distinctive national tradition. In the book, Scheid himself contextualizes his work within a century’s history of scholarship on religion in the ancient world. This foreword offers an additional perspective on the contemporary context in which Scheid intervenes and explains choices made in the process of translation.

      Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians СКАЧАТЬ