商品簡介
The volume addresses a neglected subject: secrecy and concealment as a means of creating identity and establishing social interaction. For the first time well known historians of mediterranean religions reveal the practical competence of notions of concealment and describe the fundamental differences between polytheistic and monotheistic systems.
作者簡介
Hans G. Kippenberg, Ph.D. at the University of Gottingen, habilitation at the University of Berlin, held the chair for Comparative religion at the University of Groningen (1977-1989) and presently at Bremen. He is the editor ofNumen (Brill).
