Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstracts Hide Ancient Realities by Carlin A. Barton, Daniel Boyarin (review)

• Autores: Todd S. Berzon
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 147-149
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the introduction to their provocative new monograph, Carlin Barton and Daniel Boyarin describe the volume as an effort “to do the ‘impossible’ work of making an incommensurable thought world comprehensible without resorting to the pre-sorted categories produced in the scholar’s study” (6). While Barton and Boyarin stress that ancient writers thought extensively about gods, built temples, conducted rituals, etc., they are adamant, quoting Daniel Dubuisson, that these authors did not make “from this collection of attitudes and ideas an autonomous singular complex” (5). Methodical investigation of the past requires us to be self-conscious about the limits, deficiencies, and misrepresentations of modern terminology. [...]it seems to me that the problem with translating the words religio and thrēskeia as “religion” is not the translation itself, but rather that too few of us take the next step to say exactly what we mean when we use the word.