عنوان

What Comes to an End When a "Religion" Comes to an "End"? Reflections on a Historiographical Trope and Ancient Mediterranean History of Religion

شماره

LA122937

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

What Comes to an End When a "Religion" Comes to an "End"? Reflections on a Historiographical Trope and Ancient Mediterranean History of Religion

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jörg Rüpke

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article argues that the neglect of narratives about the end of religious traditions is due to a complex entanglement of our positions as historical narrators and specifics of the sources for histories of religions, that is of emic and academic narrators. Typically, academic histories are not only based on emic narratives, but also tend to accept their conceptual frameworks with regard to the unities of description. It will be shown that such an entanglement has consequences for the neglect of the end of religious practices or groups. Against this background an analytical grid for change and discontinuation of different dimensions of "religion" will be offered and exemplified in an analysis of the "end of Paganism" in the late ancient Roman Empire. The most problematic implications of such narratives, the article will argue, are assumptions about the coherence of the religious protagonists brought center-stage. This article argues that the neglect of narratives about the end of religious traditions is due to a complex entanglement of our positions as historical narrators and specifics of the sources for histories of religions, that is of emic and academic narrators. Typically, academic histories are not only based on emic narratives, but also tend to accept their conceptual frameworks with regard to the unities of description. It will be shown that such an entanglement has consequences for the neglect of the end of religious practices or groups. Against this background an analytical grid for change and discontinuation of different dimensions of "religion" will be offered and exemplified in an analysis of the "end of Paganism" in the late ancient Roman Empire. The most problematic implications of such narratives, the article will argue, are assumptions about the coherence of the religious protagonists brought center-stage. This article argues that the neglect of narratives about the end of religious traditions is due to a complex entanglement of our positions as historical narrators and specifics of the sources for histories of religions, that is of emic and academic narrators. Typically, academic histories are not only based on emic narratives, but also tend to accept their conceptual frameworks with regard to the unities of description. It will be shown that such an entanglement has consequences for the neglect of the end of religious practices or groups. Against this background an analytical grid for change and discontinuation of different dimensions of "religion" will be offered and exemplified in an analysis of the "end of Paganism" in the late ancient Roman Empire. The most problematic implications of such narratives, the article will argue, are assumptions about the coherence of the religious protagonists brought center-stage. This article argues that the neglect of narratives about the end of religious traditions is due to a complex entanglement of our positions as historical narrators and specifics of the sources for histories of religions, that is of emic and academic narrators. Typically, academic histories are not only based on emic narratives, but also tend to accept their conceptual frameworks with regard to the unities of description. It will be shown that such an entanglement has consequences for the neglect of the end of religious practices or groups. Against this background an analytical grid for change and discontinuation of different dimensions of "religion" will be offered and exemplified in an analysis of the "end of Paganism" in the late ancient Roman Empire. The most problematic implications of such narratives, the article will argue, are assumptions about the coherence of the religious protagonists brought center-stage.

تاريخ نشر

2021

توصيف ظاهري

204-229

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

68/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

dimensions of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

group formation

اصطلاح موضوعی

historiography

اصطلاح موضوعی

imperial collapse

اصطلاح موضوعی

narrative

اصطلاح موضوعی

religions

اصطلاح موضوعی

religious change

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jörg Rüpke

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341621

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y