...This chapter focuses on the role of gods in politics in the Greek city-state, the polis, starting out from the observation of concrete practices that, in the geographical, linguistic, historical, and ethnic diversity of ancient Greece and its legacy, constitute what it calls...

... respectively, the chapter shows that the idea of God is transported from the Old Testament notions to decide which terms can qualify to be translated as God depending on what is taken to be real and what an illusion. As a thought experiment, the chapter draws on different notions of god(s) and of ritual...

...This chapter examines Freud’s ambivalent attachment to his prosthetic jaw, a result of his addiction to smoking. It argues that illness highlights the technological predicament in which humans as “prosthetic gods” are bound up. Exposing the contradiction between the promise of technology and its...

... meaning and new urgency. In this book, distinguished scholars from many disciplines—philosophy, political theory, anthropology, classics, and religious studies—seek to take the full measure of this question in today's world. The book begins with the place of the gods in the Greek polis...

... (of religious or social nature) that operates in the initial phase of the construction of a new political entity. The Roman case is particularly significant to the extent that the Romans gave a lot of thought to which god came first in the foundation of their city with respect to which god counted most. One god...

... on the distinction between three divine attributes. However, because divine simplicity requires that the divine attributes be identical with God, Abelard's account seems to be internally inconsistent. It also appeared to Bernard and others to be in conflict with Church doctrine, and as a result Abelard was censured...

... the reality reason rightness justesse rule semiotics sign linguistic signification symbol Durkheim Emile Evans–Pritchard Edward E Laugier Sandra Lienhardt Godfrey Christianity class classification criticism critique deity deities detail existence existentialism God in commensurability...

... in both trance and dance, invoke responses of both body and mind. An exception lay in Balinese belief about upside-down gods, in which benign members of village life are able to transform into demons and sorcerers and transform back into benign spirits again; such fear of involvement with the upside-down...

...This chapter discusses divinity and alterity. Divinity and alterity have haunted phenomenology since its beginnings. The fourth reduction draws on these themes that are already to be found in Kearney's Strangers, Gods, and Monsters. The discussion poses three questions...

... lessons to young Black men who had not registered with the Nation as Muslims. Allah taught that all Black men were gods themselves, not “incarnations” or “manifestations” of a greater supreme being. He called attention to his theology of immanence with a bacronym of his own name as “Arm Leg Leg Arm Head...