Theorizing "Religion" in Antiquity

Nickolas P. Roubekas is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is the author of : , , (Vanias, 2011) and An Ancient Theory of Religion: Euhemerism from Antiquity to the Present (Routledge, 2017).

Series Editor Preface
Phil Tite, University of Washington
Editor Preface
1. Introduction: The Present and Future of Ancient Religion
Brent Nongbri, Aarhus University
PART I: FROM LANGUAGE TO METHOD
2. Our Language and Theirs: `Religious' Categories and Identities
Steve Mason, Groningen University
3. The Value(s) of Belief: Ancient Religion, Cognitive Science, and Interdisciplinarity
Jason P. Davies, University College London
4. Imagining Religion in Antiquity: A How To
Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University
PART II: THE GREEK WORLD
5. Philosophical Reflections on the Presocratics: A Contribution to the Scientific Study of Religion
Donald Wiebe, University of Toronto
6. Impiety and Versions of Rationalization of Religion in Classical Greece
Emese Mogyorodi, University of Szeged, Hungary
7. Theorizing About (Which?) Origins: Herodotus on the Gods
Nickolas P. Roubekas
PART III: FROM MESOPOTAMIA TO ROME
8. Ancient Mesopotamian Scholars, Ritual Speech, and Theorizing Religion without `Theory' or `Religion'
Alan Lenzi, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
9. Magic and Religion in Ancient Egypt
Rita Lucarelli, University of California, Berkeley
10. Manipulating `Religion': The Egyptian Theologoumena in Diodorus Siculus
Panayotis Pachis, Aristotle University
11. Metaphor and Religion in Ancient Rome
Spencer E. Cole, University of Minnesota
PART IV: FROM JUDAISM TO CHRISTIANITY
12. Defining Judaism: The Case of Philo
Michael L. Satlow, Brown University
13. Religion, Geography, and the Impossibility of Jewish Identity
Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University
14. Whither Shall We Go? Tertullian and Christian Identity Formation
Nickolas P. Roubekas
15. The Anachronism of `Early Christian Communities'
Sarah E. Rollens, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
PART V: TOPICS IN THE STUDY OF (ANCIENT) RELIGION
16. Cognitive Study of (Ancient) Religions
Leonardo Ambasciano, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
17. Cultural Geography
Justin K. H. Tse, Northwestern University
18. Texts
James Crossley, St Mary's University, London
19. Gender
Irene Salvo, Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany
21. Epilogue: The Jabberwocky Dilemma: Take Religion for Example
Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont