Introduction

Nicola Cusumano

Introduction

Culture e Società

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Abstract

This introduction suggests regarding‘religion’ as a cultural product. The relationship between religion and memory can be investigated through thepractice of oath-taking, a particularly sophisticated social tool in ancient Greece. It concerns, in fact, both the status of social trust and problematic intercourses between gods and human beings, who fi nd in oath a regulated and effective space of interrelation.

Lingua originale	English
Titolo della pubblicazione ospite	Memory and religious experience in the Greco-Roman world
Pagine	7-10
Numero di pagine	4
Stato di pubblicazione	Published - 2013

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Nome	Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 45

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