Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-6th Centuries)

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
Central European University

Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire

New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-6th Centuries)

Programme
Thursday March 7, 2013

CEU Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Popper Room

10:00-10:30 am  Marianne Sághy (Budapest) Welcome and Introductory Remarks: What’s new pagans and Christians? 

10:30-12:30 pm Cities, Sophists, Bishops
Chair:  Rita Lizzi Testa (Perugia)

Josef Rist (Bochum): Conversion in a late antique city: The Life of Bishop Porphyry of Gaza by Mark the Deacon
Raffaella Cribiore (New York): The sophist Libanius as a grey pagan
Wolf Liebeschuetz (Nottingham): A view from Cyrrhus: Theodoret’s ‘Affectionum graecarum curatio’
Samuel Provost (Nancy): Living side by side in a changing urban landscape: Christians, Pagans and Jews in Philippi (4th-6th centuries)

12:30-1:30 lunch break

1:30-3:00 pm  Religion and Philosophy
Chair: Marianne Sághy (Budapest)

Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete (Paris): Relations between philosophical and religious traditions at the beginning of the Christian era : two new digital research tools
Róbert Somos (Pécs): Sentences as elements of philosophia moralis: Adaptations of a pagan literary form in the Works of Rufinus of Aquileia
Maël Goarzin (Lausanne): Pagan and Christian biography in late antiquity: On the importance of practical life for pagan and Christian philosophers

3-3:30 Coffee break

3:30-5:00 pm Cohabitation and/or Conversion
Chair: Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)

Zsófia Buzádi-Sallai (Budapest): A pagan who converted and became bishop
Margarita Vallejo-Girvés (Alcalá): Empress Verina among the pagans
Miriam Adan Jones (Amsterdam): Conversion as convergence: Understanding Gregory the Great’s attitude toward pagan and Jewish influences in Anglo-Saxon Christianity

5:30-6:30 pm keynote lecture
CEU,  Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Auditorium
Chair: Wolf Liebeschuetz

Alan Cameron (New York): Were pagans afraid to speak their mind?

7:00 pm Buffet dinner

Friday March 8 CEU Budapest

10:00 -12:00 a.m Parallel sessions

Historical Perceptions
Popper Room
Chair: Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg)

Mar Marcos (Cantabria): Eusebius and Maximinus Daia
Anna Tóth (Budapest):  John Lydus as pagan and Christian
Juana Torres (Cantabria): Rhetoric and historical deformation: Marcus of Arethusa, heretic and martyr
Ecaterina Lung (Bucharest): Religious identity as seen by 6th-century historians and chroniclers

Pagan and Christian Burials
Gellner Room
Chair: Dino Milinovic (Zagreb)

Ivan Basic (Split): From Sepulcrum divi Diocletiani to Ecclesia gloriosae Virginis: New propositions on the Christianisation of Diocletian’s mausoleum in Spalato
Monica Hellström (Providence): Circiform funerary basilicas in Rome in the context of previous burial places
Olivér Gábor (Pécs): Pagan and Christian burial customs in Sopianae
Elizabeth O’Brien (Dublin): Impact beyond the Empire: Burial practices in Ireland (4th – 8th centuries)

Posters:

Claudia-Maria Behling (Vienna): Pagan garden to Christian paradise: Early Christianity in the eastern Transdanubian Region
Stefanie Hofbauer (Vienna): Finger rings from Antiquity to Christianity

12:00-1:00 pm lunch break

1:00 pm-3:00 pm: Religious Profiling
Popper Room
Chair: Maijastina Kahlos (Helsinki)

Jerome Lagouanère (Paris): The figure of ‘Paganus’ in the Works of Augustine of Hippo
Linda Honey (Calgary): Religious profiling in the Miracles of St. Thekla
Monika Pesthy Simon (Budapest): Martyres versus Pharmakoi
Volker Menze (Budapest): The dark side of holiness: Fear, punishment, death and Barsaumo ‘the Roasted’

3:00 pm-3:30 pm Coffee break

3:30-5:30 Social and Economic Relations – Civic Life
Popper Room
Chair: Josef Rist (Bochum)

Joseph Grzywaczewski (Paris): Sidonius Apollinaris’s pagan vision of Roma bellatrix in Christian Rome
Lucy Grig (Edinburgh): Late antique popular culture and the creation of “paganism”: the Case of the Kalends of January
Sofie Remijsen (Leuven): Christianizing the rhythm of life? Sundays in late antique papyri
Jaclyn Maxwell (Ohio): Social relations and status anxiety across religious divides in late antiquity

5:30 pm-6:00 pm Coffee break

6:00-8:00 pm Pagans, Christians and Material Culture:  Artistic Crossovers
Popper Room
Chair: Lucy Grig (Edinburgh)

Rita Lizzi Testa (Perugia): The Economy of pagan temples and Christian churches
Edward M. Schoolman (Nevada): Religious images and contexts: “Christian” and “pagan” terracotta lamps
Dino Milinović (Zagreb): Pagan, Christian, or “secular”? The problem of the silver plate
Steven D. Smith (New York): Pagan literary mimésis in Christian Constantinople: The devotional epigrams of Agathias’ s Cycle

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Pécs/Sopianae, Late Antique Cemetery
Cella Septichora Visitor Center (Pécs, Szent István tér) 

1:00-3:00 pm The Archaeology of Christianisation
Chair: Zsolt Visy (Pécs)

Mustafa Şahin (Bursa): Myndos Rabbit Island (Tavşan Adası): from pagan sanctuary to Christian monastery
Branka Migotti (Zagreb): The cult of Sol Invictus and early Christianity in Southern Pannonia
Hristo Preshlenov (Sofia): Pagans and Christianisation along the South-West Black Sea Coast in the provinces of Scythia, Moesia Secunda and Haemimontos
Roy Flechner (Dublin): Economic change and conversion to Christianity in early medieval Britain and Ireland: consequence or coincidence?

3:00-4:00 pm Coffee break and poster exhibition

Zsolt Visy (Pécs): Sopianae and Valeria in the late Roman period
Levente Nagy (Pécs): Christian objects from Pannonia
István Lovász (Pécs): The northern cemetery of Sopianae in 3D
Marijana Vuković (Budapest/Oslo): Saint Irenaeus of Sirmium
Ferenc Fazekas (Pécs) – Antal Szabó (Paks): “Pagan” and Christian culture in Lussonium
Réka Neményi (Pécs): Early Christian cross-bow brooches
Francesca Diosono (Perugia): Pagani and peasants: the rural site of Villa San Silvestro di Cascia
Alessandra Bravi – Silvia Margutti (Perugia): Transformation of sacred spaces:  Constantinople and the Eastern Empire
Roy Flechner (Dublin): Converting the Isles

4:00-5:00 pm Concluding remarks
Chair: Danielle Slootjes (Nijmegen)
Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)

5:00-6:30 pm The Late Antique Cemetery of Sopianae
with guides Zsolt Visy, Levente Nagy and Olivér Gábor

6:30-7:30 pm closing lecture
Chair: Alan Cameron (New York)

Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg): Constantine and Rome – between pagans and Christians

8:00 pm Dinner
Restaurant Pezsgőház, Pécs, Szent István tér

Contact

Johanna Rákos-Zichy: eruntale@gmail.com
Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky: Znorovszky_Andrea-Bianka@ceu-budapest.edu.

Special thanks to Attila Üveges and the Zsolnay Örökségkezelő Nonprofit Kft. Pécs

(Text by the organizers)
Link

Greek Thought. A Guide to Classical Knowledge

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Greek Thought

A Guide to Classical Knowledge

Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd (eds), Catherine Porter (trans.), New Jersey: Harvard University Press, 2000

Description

Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought — investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions and possibilities of knowing. Calling attention to the characteristic reflexivity of Greek thought, the analysis in this book reminds us of what our own reflections owe to theirs. In sections devoted to philosophy, politics, the pursuit of knowledge, major thinkers, and schools of thought, this work shows us the Greeks looking at themselves, establishing the terms for understanding life, language, production, and action. The authors evoke not history, but the stories the Greeks told themselves about history; not their poetry, but their poetics; not their speeches, but their rhetoric. Essays that survey political, scientific, and philosophical ideas, such as those on Utopia and the Critique of Politics, Observation and Research, and Ethics; others on specific fields from Astronomy and History to Mathematics and Medicine; new perspectives on major figures, from Anaxagoras to Zeno of Elea; studies of core traditions from the Milesians to the various versions of Platonism: together these offer a sense of the unquenchable thirst for knowledge that marked Greek civilization—and that Aristotle considered a natural and universal trait of humankind. With thirty-two pages of color illustrations, this work conveys the splendor and vitality of the Greek intellectual adventure.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Translators’ Note

Introduction: On Home Ground in a Distant Land

Maps

Philosophy

The Philosopher

Images of the World

Myth and Knowledge

The Question of Being

Epistemology

Ethics

Politics

The Statesman As Political Actor

Inventing Politics

Utopia and the Critique of Politics

The Sage and Politics

The Pursuit of Knowledge

Schools and Sites of Learning

Observation and Research

Demonstration and the Idea of Science

Astronomy

Cosmology

Geography

Harmonics

History

Language

Logic

Mathematics

Medicine

Physics

Poetics

Rhetoric

Technology

Theology and Divination

Theories of Religion

Major Figures

Anaxagoras

Antisthenes

Archimedes

Aristotle

Democritus

Epicurus

Euclid

Galen

Heraclitus

Herodotus

Hippocrates

Parmenides

Plato

Plotinus

Plutarch

Polybius

Protagoras

Ptolemy

Pyrrhon

Socrates

Thucydides

Xenophon

Zeno

Currents of Thought

The Academy

Aristotelianism

Cynicism

Hellenism and Christianity

Hellenism and Judaism

The Milesians

Platonism

Pythagoreanism

Skepticism

Sophists

Stoicism

Chronology

Contributors

Illustration Sources

Index

Link

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674002616

Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy. An Introduction

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy

An Introduction

Stephen Clark, London: Bloomsbury, 2013

Description

Although the Greeks were responsible for the first systematic philosophy of which we have any record, they were not alone in the Mediterranean world and were happy to draw inspiration from other traditions; traditions that are now largely neglected by philosophers and scholars. This book tells the story of ‘Greek Philosophy’, paying due attention to its historical context and the contributions made by Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians and even barbarians from northern Europe. Stephen Clark provides a narrative history of the philosophical traditions that took shape over several centuries in the Mediterranean world and offers a comprehensive survey of this crucial period in the history of philosophy. The book includes a thorough historical and philosophical overview of all the key thinkers, events and ideas that characterized the period and explores in detail central themes such as the contest of gods and giants, the contrast between the reality and appearance, and the idea of the philosopher. Ideal for undergraduate students, this concise and accessible book provides a comprehensive guide to a fascinating period in the history of philosophy.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Map

1. Beginnings

2. Influence from Outside

3. Inspired Thinkers

4. Travellers and Stay-at-Homes

5. Divine Plato

6. The Aristotelian Synthesis

7. Living the Philosophical Life

8. Ordinary and Supernatural Lives

9. Late Antiquity

10. An End and a Beginning

Endnotes

Recommended Reading

Works Cited

Index

Link

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ancient-mediterranean-philosophy-9781441123596/

Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity

Mark Edwards, London: Routledge, 2012

Description

Gnosticism, Christianity and late antique philosophy are often studied separately; when studied together they are too often conflated. These articles set out to show that we misunderstand all three phenomena if we take either approach. We cannot interpret, or even identify, Christian Gnosticism without Platonic evidence; we may even discover that Gnosticism throws unexpected light on the Platonic imagination. At the same time, if we read writers like Origen simply as Christian Platonists, or bring Christians and philosophers together under the porous umbrella of « monotheism », we ignore fundamental features of both traditions. To grasp what made Christianity distinctive, we must look at the questions asked in the studies here, not merely what Christians appropriated but how it was appropriated. What did the pagan gods mean to a Christian poet of the fifth century? What did Paul quote when he thought he was quoting Greek poetry? What did Socrates mean to the Christians, and can we trust their memories when they appeal to lost fragments of the Presocratics? When pagans accuse the Christians of moral turpitude, do they know more or less about them than we do? What divides Augustine, the disenchanted Platonist, from his Neoplatonic contemporaries? And what God or gods await the Neoplatonist when he dies?

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Preface

Part I Christians and Pagans in Dispute: Quoting Aratus: Acts 17.28

Some early Christian immoralities

Justin’s logos and the word of God

Satire and verisimilitude: Christianity in Lucian’s Peregrinus

Xenophanes Christianus?

Pagan and Christian monotheism in the age of Constantine

Notes on the date and venue of the Oration to the Saints

Dracontius the African and the fate of Rome.

Part II Gnostic Thought and its Milieu: Gnostics and Valentians in the church fathers

Neglected texts in the study of Gnosticism

Pauline Platonism: the myth of Valentinus

The tale of Cupid and Psyche

Porphyry’s Cave of the Nymphs and the Gnostic controversy

Part III Christianity and the Platonic Tradition: Socrates and the early Church’ Origen’s Platonism: questions and caveats

Ammonius, teacher of Origen

Birth, death and divinity in Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus

Porphyry and the intelligible triad

The figure of love in Augustine and in Proclus the neoplatonist

Index

Link

https://www.routledge.com/Christians-Gnostics-and-Philosophers-in-Late-Antiquity/Edwards/p/book/9781138115682

Dreams as Divine Communication in Christianity: From Hermas to Aquinas

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Dreams as Divine Communication in Christianity

From Hermas to Aquinas

Koet B.J., Leuven: Peeters, 2012

Description

In the book presented here, one encounters dreams and visions from the history of Christianity. Faculty members of the Tilburg School of Theology (TST; Tilburg University, The Netherlands) and other (Dutch and Flemish) experts in theology, Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages present a collection of articles examining the phenomenon of dreaming in the Christian realm from the first to the thirteenth century. Their aim is to investigate the dream world of Christians as a source of historical theology and spirituality. They try to show and explain the importance and function of dreams in the context of the texts discussed, meanwhile making these texts accessible and understandable to the people of today. By contextualizing those dreams in their own historical imagery, the authors want to give the reader some insight into the fascinating dream world of the past, which in turn will inspire him or her to consider the dream world of today.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Preface

Notes on Contributors

B.J. KOET, Introducing Dreaming from Hermas to Aquinas

J. VERHEYDEN AND M. GRUNDEKEN, The Spirit Before the Letter: Dreams and Visions as the Legitimation of the Shepherd of Hermas. A Study of Vision

K. DE BRABANDER, Tertullian’s Theory of Dreams (De anima 45-49): Some Observations towards a Better Understanding

V. HUNINK, ‘With the Taste of Something Sweet Still in my Mouth’: Perpetua’s Visions

B.J. KOET, Jerome’s and Augustine’s Conversion to Scripture through the Portal of Dreams (Ep. 22 and Conf. 3 and 8)

G. DE NIE, ‘A Smiling Serene Face’: Face-to-Face Encounters in Early Christian Dream Visions

A. SMEETS, The Dazzle of Dawn: Visions, Dreams and Thoughts on Dreams by Gregory the Great

W. VERBAAL, Mysteria somniorum: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Pedagogic of Dreaming

K. PANSTERS, Franciscus somnians: Dreams in Late Medieval Franciscan Biography

G.P. FREEMAN, Clare of Assisi’s Vision of Francis: On the Interpretation of a Remarkable Vision

H. GORIS, Thomas Aquinas on Dreams

List of Abbreviations

Index of names, subjects and passages

Link

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014.05.47/

Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety

Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine

E. R. Dodds, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1965

Description

Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine. He looks first at general attitudes to the world and the human condition before turning to specific types of human experience. World-hatred and asceticism, dreams and states of possession, and pagan and Christian mysticism are all discussed. Finally Dodds considers both pagan views of Christianity and Christian views of paganism as they emerge in the literature of the time. Although primarily written for social and religious historians, this study will also appeal to all those interested in the ancient world and its thought.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

FOREWORD BY HENRY CHADWICK

PREFACE

KEY TO REFERENCES

Dedication

I – MAN AND THE MATERIAL WORLD

II – MAN AND THE DAEMONIC WORLD

III – MAN AND THE DIVINE WORLD

IV – THE DIALOGUE OF PAGANISM WITH CHRISTIANITY

INDEX

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/pagan-and-christian-in-an-age-of-anxiety/1922795632A358AAC795C531BEA05F51

Plotin et les Gnostiques

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
CNRS

Plotin et les Gnostiques

Description et organisation

Direction du programme : Jean-Daniel DUBOIS et Philippe HOFFMANN

Co-organisation: Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete et Anna Van den Kerchove

Le programme de recherche « Plotin et les gnostiques » s’inscrit dans ces recherches, avec comme double originalité de partir de la polémique de Plotin contre les gnostiques et d’être un lieu de formation doctorale.

Réunissant des spécialistes de la philosophie de l’Antiquité tardive et de la gnose, le programme a pour but de croiser leurs regards sur les traités de Plotin et des textes gnostiques afin de mieux comprendre les relations entre le philosophe égyptien et les gnostiques. Celles-ci sont de plusieurs ordres : polémique, influence, points de contact ou appartenance à une culture commune. Le point de départ est le traité 32 de Plotin, dont Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete, doctorante de Philippe Hoffmann, a la charge pour une traduction et un commentaire pour les éditions du Cerf. L’étude minutieuse de ce traité intitulé « Contre les gnostiques » par Porphyre, disciple de Plotin, constitue le fil conducteur de l’ensemble du programme.

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien

https://lem-umr8584.cnrs.fr/?Plotin-et-les-gnostiques&lang=fr

A Companion to Second-Century Christian ‘Heretics’

Publié le par Luciana Soares

A Companion to Second-Century Christian ‘Heretics’

Petri Luomanen & Antti Marjanen (eds), Leiden: Brill, 2008

Description

The book illuminates “the other side” of early Christianity by examining thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers as legitimate forms of Christianity, but which are now largely forgotten, or are known only from the characteristics attributed to them in the writings of their main adversaries. The collection deals with the following teachers and movements: Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus’ school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines, and Elchasites. Where appropriate, the authors have included an overview of the life and significant publications of the “heretics,” along with a description of their theologies and movements. Therefore, this volume can serve as a handbook of the second-century “heretics” and their “heresies.” Since all the chapters have been written by specialists who wrestle daily with their research themes, the contributions also offer new perspectives and insights stimulating further discussion on this fascinating—but often neglected—side of early Christianity.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Basilides the Gnostic

Author: Birger A. Pearson

Pages: 1–31

Sethianism

Author: Michael A. Williams

Pages: 32–63

The School of Valentinus

Author: Ismo Dunderberg

Pages: 64–99

Marcion

Author: Heikki Räisänen

Pages: 100–124

Tatian the Assyrian

Author: William L. Petersen

Pages: 125–158

Bardaisan of Edessa

Author: Nicola Denzey

Pages: 159–184

Montanism: Egalitarian Ecstatic “New Prophecy”

Author: Antti Marjanen

Pages: 185–212

Cerinthus

Author: Matti Myllykoski

Pages: 213–246

Ebionites

Author: Sakari Häkkinen

Pages: 247–278

Nazarenes

Author: Petri Luomanen

Pages: 279–314

Jewish Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines

Author: F. Stanley Jones

Pages: 315–334

Elchasaites and Their Book

Author: Gerard P. Luttikhuizen

Pages: 335–364

Notes on Contributors

Editors: Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen

Pages: 365–367

Index of Modern Authors

Editors: Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen

Pages: 369–373

General Index

Editors: Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen

Pages: 374–385

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/17867

Rethinking the Gods: Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Rethinking the Gods

Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period

Peter van Nuffelen, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Description

Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by religion. From the first century BC onwards, the traditionally more hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that religion was a source of philosophical knowledge. This book studies that change, not from the perspective of the history of religion, as is usual, but understands it as part of the wider tendency of Post-Hellenistic philosophy to open up to external, non-philosophical sources of knowledge and authority. It situates two key themes, ancient wisdom and cosmic hierarchy, in the context of Post-Hellenistic philosophy and traces their reconfigurations in contemporary literature and in the polemic between Jews, Christians and pagans. Overall, Post-Hellenistic philosophy can be seen to have a relatively high degree of unity in its ideas on religion, which should not be reduced to a preparation for Neo-Platonism.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I. Ancient Wisdom

  1. Tracing the origins: ancients, philosophers, and mystery cults;
  2. Plutarch of Chaeronea: ‘History as a basis for a philosophy that has theology as its end’;
  3. Numenius: philosophy as a hidden mystery;
  4. Dio Chrysostom, Apuleius and the rhetoric of ancient wisdom;

Part II. Cosmic Hierarchy

  1. Towards the pantheon as the paradigm of order;
  2. The Great King of Persia and his satraps: ideal and ideology;
  3. Dio Chrysostom: virtue and structure in the Kingship Orations;
  4. Plutarch: a benevolent hierarchy of gods and men;

Part III. Polemic and Prejudice: Challenging the Discourse

  1. Lucian, Epicureanism and strategies of satire;
  2. Philo of Alexandria: challenging Greco-Roman culture;
  3. Celsus and Christian superstition;

Epilogue.

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rethinking-the-gods/D6DC7CEFBB1F323B3D0E76FB141630FF

La mystique théorétique et théurgique dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine (paganismes, judaïsmes, christianismes)

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

La mystique théorétique et théurgique dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine

Paganismes, judaïsmes, christianismes

Description et organisation

Ce programme de recherche à caractère international est mis en place conjointement par l’UMR 8584 (Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes – Centre d’études des religions du Livre, resp. Philippe Hoffmann) et par l’UMR 8167 (Orient et Méditerranée. Mondes sémitiques, Antiquité tardive, monde byzantin, médecine grecque, Islam médiéval, resp. Christian Robin). Il possède une double direction : Simon C. Mimouni et Arnaud Sérandour pour l’EPHE et le LEM ; Madeleine Scopello pour Paris IV-Sorbonne et l’UMR 8167.

Au cours des quatre années du programme, après une double journée d’introduction à la fois historiographique, méthodologique et épistémologique, on posera successivement plusieurs questions, qui seront traitées lors de journées d’études ayant lieu deux fois par an. Chaque fois, la première, celle de janvier, sera conçue plutôt comme une réunion introductive et la deuxième, celle de mai, comme une séance plénière de travail. Toutes, en principe, se dérouleront à Paris. Ces questions se regroupent en trois ensembles tout aussi descriptifs que problématisés : un premier sur les paganismes, un deuxième sur les judaïsmes et un troisième sur les christianismes. Chaque ensemble est placé sous la responsabilité d’un spécialiste en ces domaines de recherche : Constantin Macris pour les paganismes, Arnaud Sérandour pour les judaïsmes et Madeleine Scopello pour les christianismes.

  1. La mystique : approches historiographiques, méthodologiques et épistémologiques Lors de cette journée organisée sous la responsabilité de Simon C. Mimouni, et qui aura lieu le 16 mai 2009, quatre orientations principales seront privilégiées : celles de l’anthropologie et de la sociologie, ainsi que celles du comparatisme et de l’épistémologie. L’objet de cette journée est de parvenir à l’établissement d’une problématique commune après avoir fixé les grands axes méthodologiques, épistémologiques et terminologiques de la recherche qu’on entend mener. Cette séance plénière sera précédée d’une réunion introductive préparatoire qui aura lieu le 17 janvier 2009 sous la responsabilité de Constantin Macris (CNRS / UMR 8584), afin de tracer collectivement les grandes lignes du projet.
    2. La mystique dans les paganismes (IIe siècle avant notre ère – Ve siècle de notre ère) Organisées sous la responsabilité de Constantin Macris, deux séances plénières portant sur la mystique dans les paganismes auront lieu en janvier et en mai 2010.
    3. La mystique dans les judaïsmes (IIe siècle avant notre ère – Ve siècle de notre ère) Organisée sous la responsabilité d’Arnaud Sérandour, une séance plénière portant sur la mystique dans les judaïsmes aura lieu en mai 2011.
    4. La mystique dans les christianismes (Ier – Ve siècle) Organisée sous la responsabilité de Madeleine Scopello, une séance plénière portant sur la mystique dans les christianismes aura lieu en mai 2012.

D’ores et déjà, plus d’une trentaine de chercheurs appartenant à de très nombreuses Universités ou organismes de recherche de la France et de l’étranger, ont donné leur accord de principe pour participer à ce projet. La publication de deux ouvrages rassemblant les travaux est envisagée à l’issue de chaque période de deux ans.

Simon C. Mimouni (EPHE – LEM), Arnaud Sérandour (EPHE – LEM) et Madeleine Scopello (Paris IV-Sorbonne – UMR 8167) avec la collaboration de Constantinos Macris (CNRS – LEM / CERL).

(Text by the organizers)

Lien

https://lem-umr8584.cnrs.fr/?La-mystique-theoretique-et-theurgique-dans-l-Antiquite-greco-romaine&lang=fr