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Secrecy --- Secret --- Religious aspects --- Comparative studies --- Aspect religieux --- Etudes comparatives --- 291.211.8 --- -Concealment --- Privacy --- Hiding places --- Taboe --- -Comparative studies --- -Taboe --- 291.211.8 Taboe --- -291.211.8 Taboe --- Concealment --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Geheim / in de godsdienst. (Versch. onderwerpen) --- Godsdiensten. (Versch. onderwerpen) --- Mystère. (Mélanges) --- Secret / dans la religion. (Mélanges) --- Religions. (Mélanges) --- Mysterie. (Versch. onderwerpen) --- Religious education --- Religious education (Theology) --- Comparative studies. --- Philosophy.

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This volume deals with secrecy and concealment in the history of mediterranean religions as pattern of social interaction. Secrecy is a powerful means in establishing identity and interaction as G. Simmel has demonstrated. Using his approach the scholars of this volume describe and explain the practical meaning of concealment in two different religious systems: in Egyptian and Greek polytheism and in Jewish, Christian, Gnostic and Shi'i monotheisms. This point of view reveals that all these religions shaped social norms concerning public and private aspects of the human self.

Secrecy --- Secret --- Religious aspects --- Congresses --- Aspect religieux --- Congrès --- Mediterranean Region --- Middle East --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Moyen-Orient --- Religion --- Congresses. --- 291.1 --- -Concealment --- Privacy --- Hiding places --- Godsdienstfilosofie --- -Congresses --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- Orient --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- -Congresses. --- -Godsdienstfilosofie --- 291.1 Godsdienstfilosofie --- -291.1 Godsdienstfilosofie --- Concealment --- Congrès --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Asia, West --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Secrecy - Religious aspects - Congresses.

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Privacy, Right of --- Secrecy --- Confidential communications --- Law and legislation --- Concealment --- Communications, Confidential --- Confidential relationships --- Confidentiality --- Privileged communications (Confidential communications) --- Professional secrets --- Secrets, Professional --- Privacy --- Hiding places --- Confession --- Criminal law --- Evidence (Law) --- Objections (Evidence) --- Personality (Law) --- Professional ethics --- Privacy, Right of - Congresses --- Secrecy - Law and legislation - Congresses --- Confidential communications - Congresses --- SECRET --- DROIT --- PHILOSOPHIE --- HISTOIRE

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What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this double-edged conception of secrecy and divinity profoundly affected the way believers acted and thought as subjects under the law, as the devout within monasteries, and as readers before books. One crucial way it did so was by forming an ethical relationship between the self and the world that was fundamentally different from its modern reflex. Whereas today the bearers of secrets might be judged for the consequences of their reticence or disclosure, Saltzman observes, in the early Middle Ages a person attempting to conceal a secret was judged for believing he or she could conceal it from God. In other words, to attempt to hide from God was to become ensnared in a serious sin, but to hide from the world while deliberately and humbly submitting to God's constant observation was often a hallmark of spiritual virtue.Looking to law codes and religious architecture, hagiographies and riddles, Bonds of Secrecy shows how legal and monastic institutions harnessed the pervasive and complex belief in God's omniscience to produce an intense culture of scrutiny and a radical ethics of secrecy founded on the individual's belief that nothing could be hidden from God. According to Saltzman, this ethics of secrecy not only informed early medieval notions of mental activity and ideas about the mind but also profoundly shaped the practices of literary interpretation in ways that can inform our own contemporary approaches to reading texts from the past.

Secrecy --- Concealment (Criminal law) --- God (Christianity) --- Monastic and religious life --- Spirituality --- Christian hagiography --- Riddles, English (Old) --- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern --- History --- Law and legislation --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Omniscience --- History of doctrines --- History and criticism. --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies.

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Mystery and secrecy were central concepts in the ritual, rhetoric, and sociological stratification of antique Mediterranean religions. That the ultimate nature and workings of the divine were secret, and either could not or should not be revealed except as a mystery for the initiated, was widely accepted among Pagans, Jews, and then Christians, both Gnostic and otherwise. The similarities and differences in the language of mystery and secrecy across religious and cultural borders are thus crucial for understanding this important period of the history of religions. The present anthology aims to present and analyze a wide selection of sources elucidating this theme, reflecting the correspondingly wide scholarly interests of Professor Einar Thomassen in honor of his 60th birthday.

Gnostic literature --- Gnosticism --- Manichaeism --- Mystery --- Secrecy --- History and criticism --- Nag Hammadi codices --- Gnosticism. --- Manichaeism . --- Mystery. --- Secrecy. --- 273.1 --- 273.1*35 --- Concealment --- Privacy --- Hiding places --- Mysteries (Revelation of God) --- Revelation --- Dualism (Religion) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- History and criticism. --- Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Christianity --- Nag Hammadi codices. --- Nag Hammadi library --- Chenoboskion manuscripts --- Nag Hammadi manuscripts --- Khenoboskion manuscripts --- Najʻ Ḥammādī texts --- Nag Hammadi texts --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- 273.1*35 Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- 273.1 Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Manichaeism. --- Cults --- Gnostic literature - History and criticism