Papers originally presented at a conference held by the University of Chicago. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Islamic notions of privacy / the role of pollution in Athenian homicide law / Ahmed El Shamsy. Public and private in classical Athenian legal enforcement / Adriaan Lanni -- Phaneran poiēsei tēn hautou dianoian tois theois : some ancient Greek theories of (divine and mortal) mind / Esther Eidinow -- Ista tua pulchra libertas : the construction of a private cult of liberty on the Palatine / Elisabeth Begemann -- "M. Tullius...aedem Fortunae August(ae) solo et peq(unia) sua" : private foundation and public cult in a Roman colony / William Van Andringa -- Making the private public : illegitimacy and incest in Roman law / Judith Evans Grubbs -- Public and private in emergent Christian discourse / Harry O. Maier -- Staging "private" religion in Roman "public" Palmyra : the role of the religious dining tickets (banqueting tesserae) / Rubina Raja -- Can "law" be private? : The mixed message of rabbinic oral law / Natalie B. Dohrmann -- Between public and private : the significance of the neutral domain (carmelit) in late antique rabbinic literature / Catherine Hezser -- Shame, sin, and virtue : Islamic notions of privacy / Ahmed El Shamsy.
Summary:
"The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume examines the public/private distinction in the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam"-- Back cover.
Series:
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 0939-2580 ; Band 65
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