Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- I A History of Mediterranean Religion -- 1 What Is Meant by a History of Mediterranean Religion? -- 2 Religion -- 3 Facets of Religious Competence -- 4 Religion as a Strategy at the Level of the Individual -- II R...

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Main Author: Rüpke, Jörg (Author)
Contributors: Richardson, David M. B. (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Online Access: Volltext (Aggregator)
Parallel Edition:Print version: Rüpke, Jörg: Pantheon : A New History of Roman Religion. - Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2018. - 9780691156835
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Summary:Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- I A History of Mediterranean Religion -- 1 What Is Meant by a History of Mediterranean Religion? -- 2 Religion -- 3 Facets of Religious Competence -- 4 Religion as a Strategy at the Level of the Individual -- II Revolutions in Religious Media in Iron Age Italy: The Ninth to Seventh Centuries BC -- 1 The Special -- 2 The Transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age in the Mediterranean Region -- 3 Ritual Deposits -- 4 Burials -- 5 Gods, Images, and Banquets -- III Religious Infrastructure: The Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC -- 1 Houses for Gods -- 2 Temples and Altars? -- 3 Dynamics of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries -- IV Religious Practices: The Sixth to Third Centuries BC -- 1 The Use of Bodies -- 2 Sacralization -- 3 Complex Rituals -- 4 Stories and Images -- V The Appropriation and Shaping of Religious Practices by Religious Actors: The Fifth to First Centuries BC -- 1 Heterarchy and Aristocracy -- 2 Priests -- 3 Distinction -- 4 Banquet Culture -- 5 Mass Communication -- 6 The Divine -- VI Speaking and Writing about Religion: The Third to First Centuries BC -- 1 The Textuality of Ritual -- 2 Observation of Self and of the Other -- 3 Systematization -- VII The Redoubling of Religion in the Augustan Saddle Period: The First Century BC to the First Century AD -- 1 Restoration as Innovation -- 2 Religion in Space -- 3 The Redoubling of Religion -- VIII Lived Religion: The First to Second Centuries AD -- 1 Individuals in Their Relationship with the World -- 2 Home and Family -- 3 Learning Religion -- 4 Places Where Religion Was Experienced -- 5 Domestic Gods -- 6 Lived Religion Rather Than Domestic Cult -- IX New Gods: The First Century BC to the Second Century AD -- 1 Background -- 2 Isis and Serapis -- 3 Augusti: Initiatives -- 4 The Self -- 5 Résumé
X Experts and Providers: The First to Third Centuries AD -- 1 Religious Authority -- 2 Experts Male and Female -- 3 “Public” Priests and Religious Innovation -- 4 Prophetesses and Visionaries -- 5 Founders of Religion -- 6 Changes -- XI Notional and Real Communities: The First to Third Centuries AD -- 1 Textual Communities -- 2 Narratives -- 3 Historization and the Origin of Christianity -- 4 Religious Experiences and Identities -- XII Demarcations and Modes of Community: The Third to Fourth Centuries AD -- 1 The Market Value of Religious Knowledge -- 2 Political Actors -- 3 The Treatment of Difference -- 4 The Competitive Scene -- XIII Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index
ISBN:1400888859