This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and
communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused …

Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in
the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) …

The topic of religious identity in late antiquity is highly contentious. How did individuals and
groups come to ascribe identities based on what would now be known as' religion' …

Belief in magic was, until relatively recent times, widespread in Britain; yet the impact of such
belief on determinative political events has frequently been overlooked. In his wide-ranging …

Magical objects play an important role in the fourteenth-century Byzantine vernacular
romance Kallimachos and Chrysorroi, not due to their supernatural powers, but rather in …

At any rate on a naive view, the roles of subordinated religious specialists seem an obvious
candidate for consideration in an account of the relation between religion and individuation …

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This study aims to analyse the nature and evolution of Greek magical texts devoid of
Christian elements from Late Antique Egypt, spanning the fourth to seventh centuries. As this …

This chapter examines the impact of Frazer's Law of Similarity on the study of Greco-Roman
defixiones (curse tablets). Through a historiographic overview, the enduring influence of …

Entre o corpus variado de Flávio Filóstrato, a obra neoplatónica Vita Apollonii destaca-se
pelos relatos das viagens e aventuras maravilhosas vividas pelo θεῖος ἀνήρ Apolónio de …