Religio Duplex : How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion
Jan. Assmann
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Medvirkende | Savage, Robert (Contributor)
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (258 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Egyptian Foundations: The Dual Meaning of Signs; Religio Duplex and the Endgame of Egyptian Culture; Sacramental Interpretation: The Dual Meaning of Signs; Transfigurations; Initiatory interrogations; Iamblichus and the Egyptian mysteries; The Two or Three Scripts of the Ancient Egyptian Culture of Writing; Digraphy; Pictography; From pictures to letters: the history of writing as history of religion; 2: From the Dual Meaning of Signs to Dual Religion; Verba Duplicata: Moses Maimonides. - Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Mosaic Laws: John SpencerThe Platonic Construction of Dual Religion: Ralph Cudworth; 3: Religio Duplex and Political Theology; John Toland and the Critique of Political Theology; William Warburton and the Redemption of Political Theology; Secrecy under the Banner of Morality and Politics; 4: Religio Duplex and Freemasonry; Secret Society Novels; Secrecy under the Banner of Nature and Revelation; Ignaz von Born and the Vienna Mysteries Project; Subterranean Egypt; The Magic Flute: Opera Duplex; 5: In the Era of Globalization: Religio Duplex as Dual Membership. - Globalization, Cosmopolitanism and Cultural MemoryWaves of globalization and universalist initiatives; All gods are one: religious cosmopolitanism; The parable of the ring: tolerance as a cosmopolitan project; Moses Mendelssohn and the Idea of a 'Religion of Mankind'; Patriot and Cosmopolitan: Lessing's 'Ernst and Falk', with a Glance at Herder and Wieland; Homo Duplex; Prospectus: Religio Duplex Today?; Retrospectus: Are There 'Dual Religions'?; Noah and Moses; Visible and Invisible Religions; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians, who set out to present their culture as divided between the popular and the elite. By examining their beliefs, he argues, we can distinguish the two faces of ancient religions more generally: the outer face (that of the official religion) and the inner face (encompassing the mysterious nature of religious experience).
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| ISBN | 9780745668420. - 9780745668437
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