How Long to Read Inventing Superstition

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing Superstition?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Inventing Superstition by Dale B. MARTIN

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Roman author Pliny the Younger characterizes Christianity as "contagious superstition"; two centuries later the Christian writer Eusebius vigorously denounces Greek and Roman religions as vain and impotent "superstitions." The term of abuse is the same, yet the two writers suggest entirely different things by "superstition." Dale Martin provides the first detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the fourth century C.E. With illuminating reference to the writings of philosophers, historians, and medical teachers he demonstrates that the concept of superstition was invented by Greek intellectuals to condemn popular religious practices and beliefs, especially the belief that gods or other superhuman beings would harm people or cause disease. Tracing the social, political, and cultural influences that informed classical thinking about piety and superstition, nature and the divine, "Inventing Superstition" exposes the manipulation of the label of superstition in arguments between Greek and Roman intellectuals on the one hand and Christians on the other, and the purposeful alteration of the idea by Neoplatonic philosophers and Christian apologists in late antiquity. "Inventing Superstition" weaves a powerfully coherent argument that will transform our understanding of religion in Greek and Roman culture and the wider ancient Mediterranean world.

How long is Inventing Superstition?

Inventing Superstition by Dale B. MARTIN is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing Superstition Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Inventing Superstition aloud.

What Reading Level is Inventing Superstition?

Inventing Superstition is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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