- Piccole ‘curiosità’ delle religioni antiche. Un approccio antropologico
- Edited by Ginevra Benedetti, Francesca Prescendi
Religioni antiche, domande nuove. Il valore euristico della ‘curiosità’
- Ginevra Benedetti
- Francesca Prescendi
- © 2025 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0767-6.02
This introduction frames the volume around the heuristic value of «curiosity» in the study of ancient and modern religions. Practices and objects perceived as strange or marginal are not treated as anecdotes, but as windows into the cultural logics that produced them. Drawing on anthropological perspectives, the introduction presents «strangeness» as an analytical tool for exploring the multiple ways in which the sacred was experienced and represented.
- Keywords:
- ancient religion,
- curiosity,
- anthropology,
- otherness,
- heuristic method,
University of Siena, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3682-7427
EPHE, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France - ORCID: 0000-0002-1766-0545
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- Kluckhohn 1949 = C. Kluckhohn, Mirror for Man. The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life, Tucson 1949.
- Remotti 1990 = F. Remotti, Noi primitivi: lo specchio dell’antropologia, Torino 1990.
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Religioni antiche, domande nuove. Il valore euristico della ‘curiosità’
Authors
Ginevra Benedetti, Francesca Prescendi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0767-6.02
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Book Title
Piccole ‘curiosità’ delle religioni antiche. Un approccio antropologico
Book Subtitle
Atti delle giornate di studio - Siena, 4 e 5 aprile 2024
Editors
Ginevra Benedetti, Francesca Prescendi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
124
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0767-6
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0766-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0767-6
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0768-3
Series Title
Studi di Antichistica