Romans Watching Romans: Christ Religion in Close Urban Quarters and Neighbourhood Transformations
The paper presents an historical urban analysis of the second century Shepherd of Hermas as a text embedded in a densely populated Roman neighbourhood. The paper identifies the organisation of the Rome into vici and their demography. It draws from contemporary urban studies to describe the urban as...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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| In: |
Religion in the Roman empire
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 104-121 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hermas, Pastor
/ Roman Empire
/ Neighborhood
/ Christian
/ Social network
/ Neighborhood
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CH Christianity and Society KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Shepherd of Hermas
B face block neighbourhood B Apocalypse B imperial Rome B place entrepreneur B Collegia B insula |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | The paper presents an historical urban analysis of the second century Shepherd of Hermas as a text embedded in a densely populated Roman neighbourhood. The paper identifies the organisation of the Rome into vici and their demography. It draws from contemporary urban studies to describe the urban as a site of creative production of culture, networks, and practices. It describes the Shepherd as evidence of such creativity. Hermas is a 'place entrepreneur,' namely a person who theorises urban space and practice which he does through the vivid language of an apocalypse. Hermas addresses a network of Christ following salt merchants living within the confines of a densely populated insula face block neighbourhood. He advises them to communal solidarity even as he is in competition with another space entrepreneur, a visionary prophet whom he pillories as a fortune teller. |
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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-2020-0007 |
