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Theurgy in Late Antiquity: The Invention of a Ritual Tradition
By (author) Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
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Theurgy is commonly taken to denote a complex of rites which are based on the so-called Chaldean Oracles, a collection of oracles in hexameters, which were probably composed during the late 2nd century AD. These rituals are mostly known through Neoplatonic sources, who engage in a passionate debate about their relevance to the salvation of the soul and thus to the philosophers ultimate goal. Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler examines the development of the discourse on theurgy, attempting to reconstruct what was understood as theurgic ritual in the late antique sources. Withstanding the temptation to impose a unity on the disparate sources which span several centuries, she thus goes beyond the picture of a coherent, extra-philosophical tradition drawn by the Neoplatonists to sketch the variations in the rituals subsumed under 'theurgy' and their function, and shows how every author constructs his own 'theurgy'. This perspective leads to consider theurgy as an example of an 'artificial' ritual tradition, composed from already existing elements to create something claimed as sui generis. Theurgy offers the great opportunity to look at such a tradition from its beginning up to its end and to analyse the mechanisms of inventing and reinventing such a ritual tradition in process.
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Publisher | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG
Published date | 2 Nov 2021
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 325
Dimensions | 235 x 160 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 672g
ISBN | 978-3-5255-4020-6
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BISAC | history / ancient / egypt
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