Inventing Superstition

From the Hippocratics to the Christians

Dale B. Martin

Add to Cart

Product Details

PAPERBACK

$29.50 • £23.95 • €26.50

ISBN 9780674024076

Publication Date: 03/01/2007

Short

320 pages

World

Related Subjects

Preface
1. Superstitious Christians
2. Problems of Definition
3. Inventing Deisidaimonia: Theophrastus, Religious Etiquette, and Theological Optimism
4. Dealing with Disease: The Hippocratics and the Divine
5. Solidifying a New Sensibility: Plato and Aristotle on the Optimal Universe
6. Diodorus Siculus and the Failure of Philosophy
7. Cracks in the Philosophical System: Plurarch and the Philosophy of Demons
8. Galen on the Necessity of Nature and the Theology of Teleology
9. Roman Superstitio and Roman Power
10. Celsus and the Attack on Christianity
11. Origen and the Defense of Christianity
12. The Philosophers Turn: Philosophical Daimons in Late Antiquity
13. Turning the Tables: Eusebius, the “Triumph” of Christianity, and the Superstition of the Greeks
Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of a Grand Optimal Illusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Buy Elsewhere

Find at a Library »Cite This Book » Permalink

The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, by Anthony Abraham Jack, from Harvard University Press

Recent News

On Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time, What Remains author Sarah Wagner described how the determination of military families—and new technologies—have kept alive the effort to bring home the remains of Vietnam-era soldiers.
On WAMU’s 1A, Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis, coauthors of Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography, discussed how an accurate scientific understanding of the hormone can affect efforts to reshape the Western definition of masculinity; Literary Hub published an excerpt from the book on the tenuous link between the hormone and violent behavior.
The Great Reversal author Thomas Philippon explained to the Verge podcast The Vergecast how, in certain markets like healthcare, technology, and air travel, consolidation has resulted in much higher prices for Americans over time.
Françoise Baylis, author of Altered Inheritance, spoke with Crux about the moral questions (from a Catholic perspective) surrounding the use and further development of CRISPR technology.

From Our Blog

Photo of Lucia Jacobs as a child sitting next to Oaky

How to Plant a Forest

For this week’s University Press Week Blog Tour, Lucia Jacobs offers us a glimpse of environmental stewardship as seen through the activities of the ubiquitous squirrel, a species native to the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia from the Eocene Epoch onward. Lucia Jacobs is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the…

‘manifold glories of classical Greek and Latin’

The digital Loeb Classical Library (loebclassics.com) extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.

Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library I Tatti Renaissance Library logo (bee)

I Tatti Renaissance Library

Loeb Classical Library

Murty Classical Library of India

Resources for: Authors | Booksellers & Librarians | Educators | Journalists | Readers

Harvard University Press offices are located at 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA & Vernon House, 23 Sicilian Avenue, London WC1A 2QS UK