Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians by Dale B. Martin

Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians

Dale B. Martin

307 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)

nonfiction historical history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Roman author Pliny the Younger characterizes Christianity as "contagious superstition"; two centuries later the Christian writer Eusebius vigorously denounces Greek and Roman religions as vain and impotent "superstitions." The term of abuse is...

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