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Inventing Superstition

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Description for Inventing Superstition Paperback. Provides a detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the 4th Century AD. This work demonstrates that the concept of superstition was invented by Greek intellectuals to condemn popular religious practices and beliefs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 362.

The Roman author Pliny the Younger characterizes Christianity as “contagious superstition”; two centuries later the Christian writer Eusebius vigorously denounces Greek and Roman religions as vain and impotent “superstitions.” The term of abuse is the same, yet the two writers suggest entirely different things by “superstition.”

Dale Martin provides the first detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the fourth century C.E. With illuminating reference to the writings of philosophers, historians, and medical teachers he demonstrates that the concept of superstition was invented by Greek ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674024076
SKU
V9780674024076
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About Dale B. Martin
Dale B. Martin is Woolsey Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Yale University.

Reviews for Inventing Superstition
Many ancients and moderns have seen religion as superstition, yet the world overflows with people who reject superstition generally yet accept it in the context of religion. Yale professor Martin explores the origins of that contradiction in perhaps the finest historical study ever of superstition and its delineation from religion.
Carlin Romano
Philadelphia Inquirer
A lucid introduction ... Read more

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