TY - BOOK ID - 19113333 TI - Divinity and history : the religion of Herodotus PY - 2000 SN - 0198152914 0199253552 9780198152910 9780199253555 0191715115 PB - Oxford : Clarendon Press, DB - UniCat KW - Herodotus KW - Herodotus,. KW - Herodotus. KW - Religion. KW - Greece KW - Historiae (Herodotus) KW - Religieuze opvattingen. KW - Thèses et écrits académiques. KW - Herodotus, KW - Hérodote. KW - Hérodote KW - Hérodote, KW - History (Herodotus). KW - Historiae (Herodotus). KW - 292 KW - Godsdiensten van Grieken en Romeinen. Klassieke mythologie KW - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19113333 AB - Critics of Herodotus have generally shown an unease in the face of the religious passages of the Histories, a sense that he 'lets himself down' by delving into matters irrelevant to the proper purpose of history. They have tended consequently to latch on to isolated instances of skepticism in an attempt to vindicate Herodotus from imagined charges of obscurantism. Historians of Greek religion, on the other hand, by their concentration on ritual as the central feature of Greek religious experience, have often neglected the value of literary sources as evidence of religious belief; indeed the term belief has become something of a dirty word. In this book, the first full-length study of the subject in English, Dr Harrison not only places Herodotus' religious beliefs at the center of his conception of history, but - by seeing instances of skepticism and of belief in relation to one another, and by the use of analogy from anthropological literature - also redresses the recent emphasis on the centrality of ritual. ER -