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Meeting Program Units

2019 Annual Meeting

San Diego, CA

Meeting Begins11/23/2019
Meeting Ends11/26/2019

Call for Papers Opens: 12/19/2018
Call for Papers Closes: 3/6/2019

Requirements for Participation

Religion and Philosophy in Antiquity


Program Unit Type: Seminar
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: For our second year, we will be hosting our seminar and co-sponsoring two additional sessions. For the seminar, we will have invited papers, which will be made available prior to the 2019 meeting. For more information about the seminar, contact relphil.lateantique@gmail.com. (2). Astrology, Philosophy, Religion. In antiquity, astrology elicited strong and diverse opinions. To some it was a philosophical praxis allowing the soul to imitate the divine order; to others, it was the work of demons, designed to keep human beings from God. We invite proposals that address astrology as a locus of philosophical or religious competition in late antiquity. Co-sponsored with "Religious Competition in Late Antiquity." (3) An invited session on Michael Swartz's The Mechanics of Providence: The Workings of Ancient Jewish Magic and Mysticism (Mohr Siebeck, 2018). This session is co-sponsored by Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism in Antiquity, and History and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism.”

Program Unit Chairs

Roshan Abraham
Todd Krulak

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