Introduction

This book focuses on religious experience in the lives of Greek individuals and their communities, as explored using evidence spanning the 8th century through the late 4th century BCE. Models of Greek religion must more effectively account for personal experience and lived draws on lived religion paradigms to investigate people's religious practices in daily life. As a study concerned with personal religious experience, this introductory chapter lays out the methods and theoretical frameworks that structure the study (such as phenomenology, materiality, and lived religion).