Religion in the Roman Empire / Jörg Rüpke, Greg Woolf (Eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rüpke, Jörg, editor.

Woolf, Greg, editor.

Series:

Religionen der Menschheit ; Bd. 16, 2.

Die Religionen der Menschheit ; Band 16,2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Religion.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Verlag W. Kohlhammer, [2021]

Summary:

"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"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: living Roman religion / Jörg Rüpke and Greg Woolf

Empire as a field of religious action / Greg Woolf and Miguel John Versluys

The city as a field of religious action: manufacturing the divine in Pompeii / William Van Andringa

Sanctuaries - places of communication, knowledge and memory in Roman religion / Rubina Raja and Anna-Katharina Rieger

People and competencies / Georgia Petridou and Jörg Rüpke

The gods and other divine beings / Heidi Wendt

Managing problems: choices and solutions / Richard Gordon

Artefacts and their humans: materialising the history of religion in the Roman world / Miguel John Versluys and Greg Woolf

The impact of textual production on the organisation and proliferation of religious knowledge in the Roman Empire / Georgia Petridou and Jörg Rüpke

Economy and religion / Richard Gordon, Rubina Raja and Anna-Katharina Rieger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783170292246

3170292242

OCLC:

1143622430