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A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World


A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World


Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World 1. Aufl.

von: Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke

171,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 20.04.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781118885802
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 520

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<p><i>A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World</i> presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world.</p> <p>• Features readings that focus on religious experience and expression in the ancient world rather than solely on religious belief</p> <p>• Places a strong emphasis on domestic and individual religious practice</p> <p>• Represents the first time that the concept of “lived religion” is applied to the ancient history of religion and archaeology of religion</p> <p>• Includes cutting-edge data taken from top contemporary researchers and theorists in the field</p> <p>• Examines a large variety of themes and religious traditions across a wide geographical area and chronological span</p> <p>• Written to appeal equally to archaeologists and historians of religion</p> <p> </p>
<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p> <p>Abbreviations xii</p> <p>1 Archaeology of Religion, Material Religion, and the Ancient World 1<br /><i>Rubina Raja and Jörg Rüpke</i></p> <p><b>Part I Archaeology of Ritual 27</b></p> <p>2 The Archaeology of Ancient Sanctuaries 29<br /><i>William Van Andringa</i></p> <p>3 Ritual Activities, Processions and Pilgrimages 41<br /><i>Thierry Luginbühl</i></p> <p>4 Perpetuated Action 60<br /><i>Lara Weiss</i></p> <p>5 Public and Private 71<br /><i>Robert Parker</i></p> <p><b>Part II Embodiment 81</b></p> <p>6 Amulets 83<br /><i>Gideon Bohak</i></p> <p>7 Dress and Ornaments 96<br /><i>Laura Gawlinski</i></p> <p>8 Dance 107<br /><i>Frederick Naerebout</i></p> <p>9 Gendered Agents and Embodied Religious Experience 120<br /><i>Zsuzsanna Várhelyi</i></p> <p><b>Part III Experiences 131</b></p> <p>10 Polychromy and Jewish Visual Culture of Roman Antiquity 133<br /><i>Steven Fine</i></p> <p>11 Watching Rituals 144<br /><i>Valérie Huet</i></p> <p>12 Killing and Preparing Animals 155<br /><i>Patrice Méniel</i></p> <p>13 Communal Dining: Making Things Happen 167<br /><i>Marleen Martens</i></p> <p>14 WATER 181<br /><i>Olivier de Cazanove</i></p> <p>15 Temporary Deprivation: Rules and Meanings 194<br /><i>Richard Gordon</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Creating spaces of experiences 207</b></p> <p>16 At Home 209<br /><i>Kimberly Bowes</i></p> <p>17 Gardens 220<br /><i>Richard Neudecker</i></p> <p>18 Religion and Tomb 235<br /><i>Henner von Hesberg, Christiane Nowak and Ellen Thiermann</i></p> <p><b>Part V Designing and Appropriating Sacred Space 251</b></p> <p>19 Archaeology of Christian Initiation 253<br /><i>Robin M. Jensen</i></p> <p>20 Oracular Shrines as Places of Religious Experience 268<br /><i>Julia Kindt</i></p> <p>21 Buildings of Religious Communities 279<br /><i>Inge Nielsen</i></p> <p>22 Sanctuaries and Urban Spatial Settings in Roman Imperial Ostia 293<br /><i>Marlis Arnhold</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Sharing Public Space 305</b></p> <p>23 Complex Sanctuaries in the Roman Period 307<br /><i>Rubina Raja</i></p> <p>24 Temples and Temple Interiors 320<br /><i>Henner von Hesberg</i></p> <p>25 Theater 333<br /><i>Susanne Gödde</i></p> <p>26 The Archaeology of Processions 349<br /><i>Eftychia Stavrianopoulou</i></p> <p>27 Urbanization and Memory 362<br /><i>Christopher Smith</i></p> <p><b>Part VII Expressiveness 377</b></p> <p>28 Images 379<br /><i>Sylvia Estienne</i></p> <p>29 Instruments and Vessels 388<br /><i>Anne Viola Siebert</i></p> <p>30 Anatomical ex votos 397<br /><i>Günther Schörner</i></p> <p>31 Monumental Inscriptions 412<br /><i>Wolfgang Spickermann</i></p> <p><b>Part VIII Agents 425</b></p> <p>32 Material Culture and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity 427<br /><i>Eric Rebillard</i></p> <p>33 Individual Choices and Individuality in the Archaeology of Ancient Religion 437<br /><i>Jörg Rüpke</i></p> <p>34 Material Culture and Imagined Communities in the Roman World 451<br /><i>Eva Mol and Miguel John Versluys</i></p> <p><b>Part IX Transformations 463</b></p> <p>35 Ritual Traditions of Non?]Mediterranean Europe 465<br /><i>Greg Woolf</i></p> <p>36 Tracing Religious Change in Roman Africa 478<br /><i>Valentino Gasparini</i></p> <p>Index 489</p>
"...this is a strong, diverse and stimulating collection of essays with some excellent theoretical contributions as well as accounts of particular practices or bodies of material; it presents a coherent picture of religion as experienced and will be a mainstay for students and scholars of Graeco-Roman religion." - <i>Bryn Mawr Classical Review</i><br /><br />“Scholars of antiquity, especially those specializing in the archaeology or history of ancient religion, will find this text to be a beneficial complement to their bookshelf… With its progressive approach and interdisciplinary nature, I will find this book useful for many years to come. Students and scholars of the ancient world will probably feel the same way.” – <i>The Classical Journal</i><br /><br />"The thirty-five contributions in this volume aim to give insights into areas of research and study that provide crucial information about religion and ritual practice in antiquity." -<i> New Testament Abstracts</i><br /><br />"A companion to the archaeology of religion in the ancient world, edited by Raja and Rupke, positions itself at the intersection of archaeology and religious studies. It presents 35 contributions on varied aspects of religious practice across the Graeco-Roman and late antique worlds. Unlike some recent handbooks, the editors provide an extended introduction explaining the rationale for the selection of topics." - <i>Antiquity</i><i><br /></i>
<p><b>Rubina Raja</b> is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published widely on religious identities in the eastern Roman provinces, and is editor of the series <i>Contextualising the Sacred</i>, <i>Lived Ancient Religion</i>, and <i>Palmyrenske Studier</i>. She is the author of the monograph <i>Urban Development and Regional Identity in the Eastern Roman Provinces, 50 BC – AD 250: Aphrodisias, Ephesos, Athens, Gerasa.</i> She is currently working on a monograph on the religious life of the Tetrapolis region.</p> <b>Jörg Rüpke</b> is Professor of History of Religion at the University of Erfurt, Germany and director of the ERC Research Group “Lived Ancient Religion.” His books include <i>Domi militiae</i> (1990); <i>Rituals in Ink</i> (2004); <i>Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome</i> (2006); (ed.) <i>A Companion to Roman Religion</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007); <i>Religion of the Romans</i> (2007); <i>Fasti sacerdotum</i> (2008); <i>The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History, and the Fasti</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011); <i>Von Jupiter zu Christus</i> (2011); <i>Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change</i> (2012); <i>Religiöse Erinnerungskulturen</i> (2012); <i>The Individual in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean</i> (2013); <i>Ancients and Moderns: Religion</i> (2014).
<p><i>A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World</i> presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics and archaeological materials relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity. Chapters are primarily focused on “lived religion”—religious experience rather than belief—in the Greco-Roman world, and take their point of departure in concepts, aspect, and empirical material relating to central themes within the archaeology of religion.</p> <p>Featuring 35 contributions from leading specialists, researchers, and theorists in a variety of relevant fields, chapters are structured around themes that include archaeology of ritual, embodiment, experiences, creating spaces of experiences, designing and appropriating sacred space, sharing public space, expressiveness, and agents and transformations.</p> Collectively, chapters serve to shape our understanding of the role of objects in cultural practices of constructing religion and encountering and appropriating such a religion as objectified representations of the sacred. Combining the best current scholarship with a wide-ranging geographical scope and chronological span, <i>A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World</i> offers illuminating insights into everyday religious life and ritual practice during antiquity.

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