Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians

by Dale B. Martin

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674024079

ISBN13:9780674024076

Release Date:March 2007

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Related Subjects

Ancient Christian Books & Bibles Christian Living Christianity Education & Reference Folklore & Mythology History History & Surveys Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Religion Religion & Spirituality Religious History Religious Studies Social Sciences

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