Brent Nongbri
Autor de Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept
Sobre El Autor
Brent Nongbri is professor of history of religions at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society in Oslo, and the author of Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept and numerous articles on the paleography and codicology of early Christian manuscripts.
Obras de Brent Nongbri
Obras relacionadas
Collecting Early Christian Letters: From the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity (2015) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
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- male
- Educación
- University of Texas at Austin (BA)
Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD) - Ocupaciones
- Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History
- Organizaciones
- Macquarie University
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Discussing this book with Jack Tsonis, Nongbri begins by explaining various uses of the term “religio” in Roman and Christian antiquity, which were somewhat different from the modern term “religion”. The conversation then moves into the early modern period and the changes wrought by the Reformation, the rise of the political state, and the subsequent period of religious conflict. At this point we begin to see something that looks like the modern English category “religion”, although that shift was not fully consolidated until the formalization of philology and ancient world studies in the nineteenth century.
This podcast will interest all students of religion, regardless of their area of speciality. At the core of Nongbri’s project is a call for constant vigilance with the categories we use to describe human behaviour. While he does not advocate abandoning “religion”, understanding the history of the term does encourage us to use it with greater methodological reflexivity.… (más)