عنوان

Making Mysteries. From the Untergang der Mysterien to Imperial Mysteries - Social Discourse in Religion and the Study of Religion

شماره

LA126358

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Making Mysteries. From the Untergang der Mysterien to Imperial Mysteries - Social Discourse in Religion and the Study of Religion

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Gerhard van den Heever

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article considers the 'fate' of Graeco-Roman mysteries in late Antiquity in the context of the gradual Christianising of the Roman Empire. It is argued that the mysteries of the imperial era were themselves contributing to and demonstrative of the social ideology underlying the making of the Roman Empire. The mysteries were embedded in the imperial performance of Saturnalian good times. In order to see this one should change the perspective to study them first and foremost as imperial performances. Concomitantly, one should also study the constructions of mysteries in scholarship in order to understand the birth of our conventional understanding of the mysteries in the context of the social ideologies of the 19th century. In this way the Graeco-Roman mysteries serve as a useful case study of the constructedness of religion as social discourse as well as scholarship on religion as equally a social discourse. This article considers the 'fate' of Graeco-Roman mysteries in late Antiquity in the context of the gradual Christianising of the Roman Empire. It is argued that the mysteries of the imperial era were themselves contributing to and demonstrative of the social ideology underlying the making of the Roman Empire. The mysteries were embedded in the imperial performance of Saturnalian good times. In order to see this one should change the perspective to study them first and foremost as imperial performances. Concomitantly, one should also study the constructions of mysteries in scholarship in order to understand the birth of our conventional understanding of the mysteries in the context of the social ideologies of the 19th century. In this way the Graeco-Roman mysteries serve as a useful case study of the constructedness of religion as social discourse as well as scholarship on religion as equally a social discourse.

تاريخ نشر

2005

توصيف ظاهري

262-307

عنوان

Religion and Theology

شماره جلد

12/3-4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1574-3012

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Gerhard van den Heever

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157430106776241150

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y