Detraditionalization, Unbelief, and Theological Contestation in On the Sacred Disease
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https://doi.org/10.24310/mhnh.23.2025.21582Keywords:
Detraditionalisation, unbelief, Corpus hippocraticum, sacred disease, religious individualisationAbstract
The aim of the paper is to propose a novel interpretation of the treatise On the Sacred Disease through an eclectic exegesis based on various theoretical frameworks of the academic study of religions. The proposal’s primary focus is on the analysis of arguments that question religious beliefs and practices that differ from the theological and normative vision of the treatise’s author. To this end, the article puts forward the concept of detraditionalisation as a means of analysing the religious and irreligious dynamics of the Greek religious field in Antiquity. This study, while centred on the work On the Sacred Disease, aspires to establish a theoretical framework that can be applied to other textual evidence from the classical Greek period.
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