• Jörg Rüpke (Hrsg.)
  • Greg Woolf (Hrsg.)

Religion in the Roman Empire

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  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seiten: 323
  • Sprache: Englisch
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The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.

  • Cover
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  • Titlepage
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  • Imprint
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  • Contents
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    Introduction: Living Roman Religion
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    • 1 Approaching Roman Religion
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    • 2 The Idea of Religion
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    • 3 Lived Ancient Religion
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    • 4 The Story of Rome
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    • 5 Themes and Methods
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    • Bibliography
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    Empire as a field of religious action
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    • 1 A Religion of the Empire?
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    • 2 Emperors in the Religious life of the Roman World
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    • 3 Empire as an interaction sphere
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    • 4 The Empire in the World
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    • 5 Empire and Religions
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    • Bibliography
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    The City as a Field of Religious Action: Manufacturing the Divine in Pompeii
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    • 1 A city full of gods
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    • 2 The Gods in Action
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    • 3 Working with the Gods
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    • 4 Conclusion
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    • Bibliography
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    Sanctuaries - places of communication, knowledge and memory in Roman religion
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    • 1 Sanctuaries - places for people and gods
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      2 The role of sanctuaries in an empire full of differences
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      • 2.1 New temples and gods under new rulers
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      • 2.2 Villages, towns and regions: spatial-religious references and regional traditions in sanctuaries
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      • 2.3 Sanctuaries as places of permanence, political appropriation and religious change
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      3 Costs, events and experiences: Visitors, users and religious specialists in a sanctuary
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      • 3.1 Space for experience—ersonal needs and religious experience
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      • 3.2 Oracles, healing and life counselling
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      • 3.3 Great feasts and great gifts
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    • 4 Collection of knowledge and objects - sanctuaries in the dynamic between memory and oblivion
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    • Bibliography
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    People and Competencies
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    • 1 Introduction
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    • 2 Public priests
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    • 3 Divination, diviners and the diagnostic value of signs
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    • 4 Oracular officials in the Eastern Roman Provinces
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    • 5 Anchoring religious innovation
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    • 6 Small-group religious entrepreneurs
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    • 7 Developing a priestly role in Christ-centred imaginations
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    • 8 The philosophers as religious experts and henotheistic tendencies before Christianity
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    • 9 Setting borders to religious experts
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    • Bibliography
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    The Gods and Other Divine Beings
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    • 1 Introduction
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    • 2 The Gods and Roman ›Religion‹
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    • 3 Whose Roman Religion?
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    • 4 Interacting with Divine Beings in the Roman World
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    • 5 Intellectualizing Religious Experts
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    • Bibliography
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    Managing problems: Choices and solutions
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    • 1 Introduction
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      2 Mainstream options
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      • 2.1 Healing waters, therapeutic dreams
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        2.2 Divinatory shrines
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        • 2.2.1 Oracles, mainly in Italy
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        • 2.2.2 The eastern Mediterranean
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        2.3 Settling the dead
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        • 2.3.1 Monumentum and sepulcrum
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        • 2.3.2 Ritual meals
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    • 3 Minor ritual specialists
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    • 4 Self-help
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    • 5 Conclusion
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    • Bibliography
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    Artefacts and their humans: Materialising the history of religion in the Roman world
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    • 1 Introduction: From (Late) Prehistoric to Roman
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    • 2 Artefacts and religious change in the Roman world
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    • 3 Objects, affordances, and religion
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    • 4 Objectscape and semiotic form
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    • 5 How new objects and materials change religious practices: ÜcfSemiBoldItÝautomataÜfyMyriadProÝÜcfSemiBoldÝ
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    • 6 Religion in the Empire of things
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    • 7 Beyond wood
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    • 8 With terracotta (and double moulds)
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    • 9 Through marble and ÜcfSemiBoldItÝcaementiciumÜfyMyriadProÝÜcfSemiBoldÝ
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    • 10 Led by lead
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    • 11 Conclusion
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    • Bibliography
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    The Impact of Textual Production on the Organisation and Proliferation of Religious Knowledge in the Roman Empire
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    • 1 Introduction
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    • 2 Calendars: Appropriating Time and Systematizing Religious Action
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    • 3 Controlling ›Religion‹: Legalization and Ratification of Religious Knowledge
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    • 4 Re-framing ›Religion‹: Exegesis, Appropriation and Translation as Means of Reiterating Old and Propagating New Religious Ideas
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    • 5 Texts and Rituals in the Second Century CE: A€Century of Intense Religious Experimentation
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    • 6 ›Religion‹ as Philosophy in the Second Sophistic
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    • 7 Martyrologies: Textualizing Death and Embodying ÜcfSemiBoldItÝdevotioÜfyMyriadProÝÜcfSemiBoldÝ
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    • Bibliography
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    Economy and Religion
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      1 Introduction
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      • 1.1 The wider context: the demography and macro-economy of the Roman Empire
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      • 1.2 Implications for expenditure on religious activity
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    • 2 Income, outgoings and the nature of the evidence
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    • 3 Public versus private: an unhelpful opposition?Ücf+supÝÜcf-supÝ
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      4 Funding civic and imperial religion
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      • 4.1 Standing revenues of sanctuaries and their protection
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      • 4.2 Revenues from sacrifice
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      • 4.3 Regular income from non-agricultural sources
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      • 4.4 Variable income: patronage
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      • 4.5 Income versus wealth
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    • 5 The finances of associations and small religious groups
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      6 Pilgrimage as an economic factor
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      • 6.1 Competition stimulates business
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      • 6.2 Infrastructure and services in and around pilgrimage sites
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    • 7 Conclusion
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    • Bibliography
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  • Abbreviations
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  • Figures
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    Index
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    • Places
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    • Names
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    • Keywords
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Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke teaches Religious Studies at Erfurt University. Prof. Greg Woolf is director of the Institute for Classical Studies in London.