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Ritual matters : material residues of ancient religions / edited by Jennifer Knust and Claudia Moser.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary volume ;
- Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary volume ; xiii
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ritual--Rome.
- Ritual.
- Material culture--Religious aspects.
- Material culture.
- Ritual--Greece.
- Rome--Religion.
- Rome.
- Rome--Antiquities.
- Greece--Religion.
- Greece.
- Greece--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Ritual Matters interrupts the anachronistic binaries of religious practice and belief, the material and the theological, by taking a new approach to the study of archaeological remains of ancient religions.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Ritual Matters: An Introduction / Claudia Moser and Jennifer Knust
- 2. Roman Sacrificial Reliefs in Rome, Italy, and Gaul: Reconstructing Archaeological Evidence? / Valérie Huet
- 3. "Don't Throw Any Bones in the Sanctuary!" On the Handling of Sacred Waste in Ancient Greek Cult Places / Gunnel Ekroth
- 4. Differential Preservation: The Changing Religious Landscape at the Sacred Area of the Republican Temples at Ostia / Claudia Moser
- 5. Archaeology of Memory: About the Forms and the Time of Memory in a Necropolis of Pompeii / Henri Duday and William Van Andringa
- 6. Statuary and Ritualization in Imperial Italy / Zsuzsanna Várhelyi
- 7. Miscellany Manuscripts and the Christian Canonical Imaginary / Jennifer Knust
- 8. "Straightening the Paths": Inductive Divination, Materiality, and Imagination in the Graeco-Roman Period / Richard L. Gordon
- 9. Ritual Matters: Afterword / David Frankfurter
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- "Published for the American Academy in Rome."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0-472-12330-0
- OCLC:
- 1014437425
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.9514628
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