The Routledge companion to ecstatic experience in the ancient world
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Companion to ecstatic experience in the ancient world |
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Stein, Diana L.,
, [HerausgeberIn]
Costello, Sarah Kielt, 1971- , [HerausgeberIn] Foster, Karen Polinger, 1950- , [HerausgeberIn] |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2022.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource. |
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Routledge companion to ecstatic experience in the ancient world (Print version:) | ISSN: 9780367480325 |
| Online Zugang: |
Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / Diana L. Stein, Sarah Kielt Costello and Karen Polinger Foster
- Contextualizing the study of ecstatic experience in ancient old world societies / Sarah Kielt Costello
- Not only ecstasy : pouring new concepts into old vessels / Etzel Cardeña
- From shamans to sorcerers : empirical models for defining ritual practices and ecstatic experience in ancient, medieval and modern societies / Michael J. Winkelman
- Psychoactive plants in the ancient world : observations of an ethnobotanist / Giorgio Samorini
- Ecstasy meets paleoethnobotany : botanical stimulants in ancient Inner Asia / Alison Betts
- Caucasian cocktails : the early use of alcohol in 'the cradle of wine' / Stephen Batiuk
- Mind-altering plants in Babylonian medical sources / Barbara Böck
- Plant-based potions and ecstatic states in Hittite rituals / Rita Francia
- Forbidden at Philae : proscription of aphrodisiac and psychoactive plants in Ptolemaic Egypt / Riccardo Andreozzi and Claudia Sarkady
- The Ring-Kernos and psychotropic substances / David Ilan
- Beer, beasts and bodies : shedding boundaries in bounded spaces / Anne Porter
- Lament, spectacle and emotion in a ritual for Ishtar / Sam Mirelman
- Writing for the dead, welcoming the solar-eye goddess and ecstatic expression in Egyptian religion / John Coleman Darnell
- Altered states on prepalatial Crete / Emily Miller Bonney
- Bodies in ecstasy : shamanic elements in Minoan religion / Christine Morris and Alan Peatfield
- The Mycenaeans and ecstatic ritual experience / Susan Lupack
- Emotional arousal, sensory deprivation and 'miraculous healing' in the cult of Asclepius / Olympia Panagiotidou
- Ecstasy and initiation in the Eleusinian mysteries / Alice Clinch
- Apolline and Dionysian ecstasy at Delphi / Yulia Ustinova
- Communing with the spirits : funeral processions in ancient Rome / Maik Patzelt
- Ecstatic experience and possession disorders in ancient Mesopotamia / Ulrike Steinert
- Ghosts in and outside the machine : a phenomenology of intelligence, psychic possession and prophetic ecstasy in ancient Mesopotamia / John Z. Wee
- Ecstatic speech in ancient Mesopotamia / Benjamin R. Foster
- Ecstatic experience : the proto-theme of a Near Eastern glyptic language family / Diana L. Stein
- Understanding the language of trees : ecstatic experience and interspecies communication in late Bronze Age Crete / Caroline J. Tully
- Psychedelic art and ecstatic visions in the Aegean / Karen Polinger Foster
- Sight as ecstatic experience in the ancient Mediterranean / Nassos Papalexandrou.
