Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics

book: Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics

Edited by: Valentino Gasparini , Maik Patzelt , Rubina Raja , Anna-Katharina Rieger , Jörg Rüpke and Emiliano Urciuoli
Funded by: European Research Council (ERC)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110557596

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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”.

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V. Gasparini, Madrid; M. Patzelt, Osnabrück; R. Raja, Aarhus; A.-K. Rieger, Graz; J. Rüpke and E. Urciuoli, Erfurt.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Pursuing lived ancient religion Valentino Gasparini, Maik Patzelt, Rubina Raja, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli Open Access Download PDF	1
Section 1: Experiencing the religious
Introduction to Section 1 Maik Patzelt Open Access Download PDF	11
(Re-)modelling religious experience: some experiments with hymnic form in the imperial period Richard L. Gordon Open Access Download PDF	23
Looking at the Shepherd of Hermas through the experience of lived religion Angela Kim Harkins Open Access Download PDF	49
“They are not the words of a rational man”: ecstatic prophecy in Montanism Maria Dell’Isola Open Access Download PDF	71
Kyrios and despotes: addresses to deities and religious experiences Nicole Belayche Open Access Download PDF	87
About servants and flagellants: Seneca’s Capitol description and the variety of ‘ordinary’ religious experience at Rome Maik Patzelt Open Access Download PDF	117
The experience of pilgrimage in the Roman Empire: communitas, paideiā, and piety-signaling Ian Rutherford Open Access Download PDF	137
Experiencing curses: neurobehavioral traits of ritual and spatiality in the Roman Empire Irene Salvo Open Access Download PDF	157
Ego-documents on religious experiences in Paul’s Letters: 2 Corinthians 12 and related texts Oda Wischmeyer Open Access Download PDF	181
Section 2: A “thing” called body: expressing religion bodily
Introduction to Section 2 Anna-Katharina Rieger Open Access Download PDF	201
Hand in hand: rethinking anatomical votives as material things Emma-Jayne Graham Open Access Download PDF	209
The “lived” body in pain: illness and initiation in Lucian’s Podagra and Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi Georgia Petridou Open Access Download PDF	237
Divinity refracted: extended agency and the cult of Symeon Stylites the Elder Heather Hunter-Crawley Open Access Download PDF	261
Food for the body, the body as food: Roman martyrs and the paradox of consumption Nicola Denzey Lewis Open Access Download PDF	287
Section 3: Lived places: from individual appropriation of space to locational group-styles
Introduction to Section 3 Valentino Gasparini Open Access Download PDF	309
Renewing the past: Rufinus’ appropriation of the sacred site of Panóias (Vila Real, Portugal) Valentino Gasparini Open Access Download PDF	319
This god is your god, this god is my god: local identities at sacralized places in Roman Syria Anna-Katharina Rieger Open Access Download PDF	351
Come and dine with us: invitations to ritual dining as part of social strategies in sacred spaces in Palmyra Rubina Raja Open Access Download PDF	385
Does religion matter? Life, death, and interaction in the Roman suburbium Barbara E. Borg Open Access Download PDF	405
Section 4: Switching the code: meaning-making beyond established religious frameworks
Introduction to Section 4 Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli Open Access Download PDF	437
Symbolic mourning Christopher Degelmann Open Access Download PDF	447
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 Open Access Download PDF	469
To convert or not to convert: the appropriation of Jewish rituals, customs and beliefs by non-Jews Katell Berthelot Open Access Download PDF	493
Emperor Julian, an appropriated word, and a different view of 4th-century “lived religion” Douglas Boin Open Access Download PDF	517
The appropriation of the book of Jonah in 4th century Christianity by Theodore of Mopsuestia and Jerome of Stridon Katharina Bracht Open Access Download PDF	531
Weapons of the (Christian) weak: pedagogy of trickery in Early Christian texts Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli Open Access Download PDF	553
Biographical Notes Open Access Download PDF	581
Index Open Access Download PDF	587

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Archaeology, Ancient History, Classics, Religious Studies, Theology and Jewish Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 597
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
- Coloured Illustrations: 26
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Lived Religion; Archaeology of Religion; History of Religion

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Published: April 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110557596

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Published: April 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110557572