All of these are civic practices, serving at the very least to instill in members of the political community some sort of esprit de corps. This would include overseeing certain holidays, the construction and care for temples, the provision of priests, and the interface between theological doctrine, on the one hand, and civic and criminal law on the other. Perhaps a contemporary label for such an office would be "ministry of religious affairs". What Aristotle talks about is the bureaucratic office of epimeleia for ta hiera, approximately the "management of holy matters". Part of the difficulty faced by the author, and acknowledged as such, is that the word "religion" does not correspond exactly to anything in ancient Greek. dissertation at Princeton, Mor Segev examines Aristotle's views concerning religion both in the poleis of his own time and in his proposed ideal version. In this concise and focused monograph, developed out of a Ph.D.
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