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Religion and Education in the Ancient Greek World<\/h3>\n

University of Goettingen (Germany)
\n25-26.10.2017<\/h4>\n

The Collaborative Research Centre 1136 ‘Bildung und Religion’ is pleased to invite you to attend the conference ‘Religion and Education in the Ancient Greek World’, organised by Tanja Scheer and Irene Salvo, to be held on Wednesday the 25th and Thursday the 26th of October 2017 in the Historical Building of the Goettingen State and University Library (Paulinerkirche).<\/p>\n

The study of ancient educational systems is a well-established field of\u00a0inquiry\u00a0and has offered several contributions that enlarged our understanding of the history of education. However, notwithstanding the ubiquitous presence of religion,\u00a0ancient\u00a0pedagogy of religion has not received systematic examination yet. This symposium will initiate a discussion concerning ancient Greece. Our speakers will explore how religious education, intended as the knowledge of beliefs, rituals, and values pertinent to the divine, was transmitted to the younger generations and the wider social community in the ancient Greek-speaking world across the Mediterranean from the Classical period to Late Antiquity.<\/p>\n

Religious education will be considered not only from the perspective of learned\u00a0individuals\u00a0but especially in its collective dimension, that is the socialization of shared knowledge and civic identities. In three sessions (1. Religious Education and Social Structure; 2. Educating the Body for Ritual Aims; 3. Knowledge and the Performance of Cults), we intend to identify and investigate the contexts devoted to educating the community in religious matters, which figures\u00a0were deemedauthoritative, through which activities the body\u00a0was trained\u00a0for the gods, which skills\u00a0were needed\u00a0in cults, and how astrological and philosophical knowledge influenced worship. A variety of sources, from literary texts and epigraphic documents to material culture, will help us to shed light on Greek mentalities and processes of transmission.<\/p>\n

SPEAKERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, 25\u00a0October 2017<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I. Religious Education and Social Structure<\/em><\/p>\n