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Crisis in Early Religion

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Editors:
  1. Mait Kõiv

    1. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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  2. Märt Läänemets

    1. Estonian Oriental Society, Ülenurme, Estonia

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  3. Kerstin Droß-Krüpe

    1. Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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  4. Sebastian Fink

    1. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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  • Comparative Analysis of Crisis in Religion
  • New Insights to Religion and Society
  • Studies in Universal History

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Crisis in Early Religion: An Introduction

    • Mait Kõiv, Sebastian Fink
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Crisis of Authentic Buddhavacana in Tipiṭaka: Is Early Buddhist Sangha’s Politics Responsible?

    • Siddharth Singh
    Pages 11-28

  4. Prajñāpāramitā as a Crisis-Marker in Buddhism

    • Sergey Yu Lepekhov
    Pages 29-37

  5. The Involvement of Buddhist Monks in the Court Intrigues in China and Japan During the Fourth to the Eighth Centuries

    • Elena Lepekhova
    Pages 39-59

  6. The Ugaritic Combat Myth and Egypto-Hittite Relations in the Late Bronze Age

    • Joanna Töyräänvuori
    Pages 61-70

  7. Crises in the Hittite Religion: Examples of the Prayer of Kantuzili and Plague Prayers of Muršili II

    • Vladimir Sazonov, Jaan Lahe
    Pages 71-84

  8. Divine Justice and Human Competition: Signs of Crises in Archaic Greece

    • Mait Kõiv
    Pages 85-118

  9. When Oracles Don’t Come True: Oedipus Tyrannus and Oracular Crisis

    • Tim Whitmarsh
    Pages 119-132

  10. ‘The Athenian ‘Plague’: Religion, ‘Rationality’, and Ethics’

    • Elizabeth Irwin
    Pages 133-161

  11. A Crisis of ‘Atheism’ in Ancient Rome? On the Perception of Nonreligion as a Threat in the Roman Empire

    • Alexandra Eppinger
    Pages 163-184

  12. Crisis and Transformation of Gnostic Christianity in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Egypt

    • Przemysław Piwowarczyk
    Pages 185-198
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About this book

Religion is closely linked to social development as it often serves as the ideological fundament of a society and one of the foremost expressions of its culture. The articles in this volume are devoted to the study of religious crisis in Anqituity and deal with these pheonomena in the Ancient Near East, Rome, Greece, China and India.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Mait Kõiv

  • Estonian Oriental Society, Ülenurme, Estonia

    Märt Läänemets

  • Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Kerstin Droß-Krüpe

  • University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Sebastian Fink

About the editors

Dr. Mait Kõiv is the associate professor of Ancient History in the University of Tartu, with the main research field in the Ancient Greek history.



Dr. Märt Läänemets is an Orientalist-Sinologist focusing on the field of history of thought and religion in China, classical Chinese and Buddhist texts; he is the President of the Estonian Oriental Society.



PD Dr. Kerstin Droß-Krüpe is a historian of ancient history and currently works as an Akademische Oberrätin at the Ruhr-University Bochum.



Dr. Sebastian Fink is Senior Scientist at the Institute for Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Crisis in Early Religion

  • Editors: Mait Kõiv, Märt Läänemets, Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Sebastian Fink

  • Series Title: Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36989-7

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-36988-0Published: 03 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-36989-7Published: 02 December 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2524-3780

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-3799

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 198

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Ancient Europe

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