The Routledge companion to ecstatic experience in the ancient world / edited by Diana L. Stein, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Karen Polinger Foster.
| Other author | Stein, Diana L. |
| Other author | Costello, Sarah Kielt, 1971- |
| Other author | Foster, Karen Polinger, 1950- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Companion to ecstatic experience in the ancient world |
| Contents | 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 Carde©ła -- 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 B©œck -- 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. |
| Abstract | "For millennia, people have universally engaged in ecstatic experience as an essential element in ritual practice, spiritual belief and cultural identification. This volume offers the first systematic investigation of its myriad roles and manifestations in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. The twenty-nine contributors represent a broad range of scholarly disciplines, seeking answers to fundamental questions regarding the patterns and commonalities of this vital aspect of the past. How was the experience construed and by what means was it achieved? Who was involved? Where and when were its rites carried out? How was it reflected in pictorial arts and written records? What was its relation to other components of the sociocultural compact? In proposing responses, the authors draw upon a wealth of original research in many fields, generating new perspectives and thought-provoking, often surprising, conclusions. With their abundant cross-cultural and cross-temporal references, the chapters mutually enrich each other and collectively deepen our understanding of ecstatic phenomena thousands of years ago. Another noteworthy feature of the book is its illustrative content, including commissioned reconstructions of ecstatic scenarios and pairings of works of Bronze Age and modern psychedelic art. Scholars, students and other readers interested in antiquity, comparative religion and the social and cognitive sciences will find much to explore in the fascinating realm of ecstatic experience in the ancient world"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Routledge companion to ecstatic experience in the ancient world Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9780367480325 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021018966 |
| ISBN | 9781000464764 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003041610 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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