Religious Inventions by William Arnal PAPERBACK 9780228024460

McGill-Queen's University Press

Religion is a modern invention, a category used to describe and study certain kinds of human behaviour. Yet when it comes to the ancient world and its texts \u2013 including those that comprise the Jewish and Christian Bibles \u2013 it can be easy to forget that they did not fall from the sky as simple expressions of dogma. Rather, the ancient writings of early Judaism and Christianity are firmly rooted in the world and are the product of an astonishing array of human experience and agency: acts of self-fashioning; of imaginative speculation; of mourning and memorializing; of forming, dissolving, or refashioning group identities; and more.\nReligious Inventions asks how modern conceptions of religion can shed light on the relics, textual and otherwise, of ancient Mediterranean Jews and Christians.\n\nReligious Inventions\nAncient Mediterranean Practice and the Study of Religion\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail ;