Sacrum Reddere: Sacrifice, Consecration, and Dedication in Roman Religion
This paper argues that the close connections among sacrifice, consecration, and dedication in modern thought are not matched by similar connections among Roman sacrificium, consecratio, and dedicatio. Although these three Roman rituals have sometimes been grouped together in recent scholarship on th...
| Published in: | Religion in the Roman empire |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mohr Siebeck
[2018]
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| In: |
Religion in the Roman empire
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religious life
/ Roman Empire
/ Religion
/ Ritual
/ Victim (Religion)
/ Consecration
/ Dedication
/ Sacralization
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| Further subjects: | B
DEDICATIO
B SACER B CONSECRATIO B Dedication B Sacrality B Consecration B Sacred B Sacrifice B SACRIFICIUM |
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| Summary: | This paper argues that the close connections among sacrifice, consecration, and dedication in modern thought are not matched by similar connections among Roman sacrificium, consecratio, and dedicatio. Although these three Roman rituals have sometimes been grouped together in recent scholarship on the basis that they all appear to do the same work namely, they endow an everyday object with a sacred status the Romans do not seem to have connected sacrificium to the other two. |
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| ISSN: | 2199-4471 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/rre-2018-0016 |