Research Catalog

Title

Lived religion in the ancient Mediterranean world : approaching religious transformations from archaeology, history and classics / edited by Valentino Gasparini [and 5 others] ; in cooperation with Elisabeth Begemann.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2020]
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Gasparini, Valentino
• Begemann, Elisabeth

Description

viii, 597 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 24 cm

Summary

The 'Lived Ancient Religion' project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by specialists from a variety of disciplinary contexts (Jewish Studies, Theology, Classics, Early Christian Studies) dealing with the history of religion of the Mediterranean, West-Asian, and European area from the (late) Hellenistic period to the (early) Middle Ages and shaped by their intensive exchange. From the point of view of their respective fields of research, the contributors engage with discourses on agency, embodiment, appropriation and experience. They present innovative research in four fields also of theoretical debate, which are ?Experiencing the Religious?, ?Switching the Code?, ?A Thing Called Body? and ?Commemorating the Moment?.

Subject

• Religions
• Archaeology and religion
• Religion > History
• Religion
• Mediterranean Region > Religion
• Mediterranean Region

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Section 1. Experiencing the religious. Introduction to Section 1 / Maik Patzelt -- (Re-)modelling religious experience: some experiments with hymnic form in the imperial period / Richard L. Gordon -- Looking at the Shepherd of Herman through the experience of lived religion / Angela Kim Harkins -- They are not the words of a rational man: ecstatic prophecy in Montanism / Maria DellIsola -- Kyrios and despotes: addresses to deities and religious experiences / Nicole Belayche -- About servants and flagellants: Senecas Capitol description and the variety of ordinary religious experience at Rome / Maik Patzelt -- The experience of pilgrimage in the Roman Empire: communitas, paideia, and piety-signaling / Ian Rutherford -- Experiencing curses: neurobehavioral traits of ritual and spatiality in the Roman Empire / Irene Salvo -- Ego-documents on religious experiences in Pauls letters: 2 Corinthians 12 and related texts / Oda Wischmeyer -- Section 2. A thing called body: expressing religion bodily. Introduction to Section 2 / Anna-Katharina Rieger -- Hand in hand: rethinking anatomical votives as material things / Emma-Jayne Graham -- The lived body in pain: illness and initiation in Lucians Podagra and Aelius Aristides Hieroi logoi / Georgia Petridou -- Divinity refracted: extended agency and the cult of Symeon Stylites the Elder / Heather Hunter-Crawley -- Food for the body, the body as food: Roman martyrs and the paradox of consumption / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Section 3. Lived places: from individual appropriation of space to locational group-styles. Introduction to Section 3 / Valentino Gasparini -- Renewing the past: Rufinus appropriation of the sacred saite of Panóias (Vila Real, Portugal) / Valentino Gasparini -- This god is your god, this god is my god: local identities at sacralized places in Roman Syria / Anna-Katharina Rieger -- Come and dine with us: invitations to ritual dining as part of social strategies in sacred spaces in Palmyra / Rubina Raja -- Does religion matter?: life, death, and interaction in the Roman suburbium / Barbara E. Borg -- Section 4. Switching the code: meaning-making beyond established religious frameworks. Introduction to Section 4 / Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli -- Symbolic mourning: the literary appropriation of sings in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome / Christopher Degelmann -- P.Oxy. 1.5 and the Codex Sangermanensis as visionary living texts: visionary habitus and processes of textualization and/or scripturalization in Late Antiquity / Luca Arcari -- To convert or not to convert: the appropriation of Jewish rituals, customs and beliefs by non-Jews / Katell Berthelot -- Emperor Julian, an appropriated word, and a different view of 4th-cenutry lived religion / Douglas Boin -- The appropriation of the book of Jonah in 4th century Christianity by Theodore of Mopsuestia and Jerome of Stridon / Katharina Bracht -- Weapons of the (Christian) weak: pedagogy of trickery in Early Christian texts / Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli.

Call Number

JFE 21-2701

ISBN

• 9783110557572
• 3110557576

LCCN

• 2019953611
• 9783110557572

OCLC

1151398744

Title

Lived religion in the ancient Mediterranean world : approaching religious transformations from archaeology, history and classics / edited by Valentino Gasparini [and 5 others] ; in cooperation with Elisabeth Begemann.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gasparini, Valentino, editor.

Begemann, Elisabeth, editor.

Other Form:

9783110557947 ePub

Other Standard Identifier

9783110557572

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2701