Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World : Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics.

By: Gasparini, ValentinoContributor(s): Patzelt, Maik | Raja, Rubina | Rieger, Anna-Katharina | R�upke, J�org | Urciuoli, EmilianoMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020Copyright date: �2020Description: 1 online resource (606 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110557596Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean WorldOnline resources: Wie greife ich auf das E-Book zu? | Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Pursuing lived ancient religion -- Section 1: Experiencing the religious -- Introduction to Section 1 -- (Re-)modelling religious experience: some experiments with hymnic form in the imperial period -- Looking at the Shepherd of Hermas through the experience of lived religion -- "They are not the words of a rational man": ecstatic prophecy in Montanism -- Kyrios and despotes: addresses to deities and religious experiences -- About servants and flagellants: Seneca's Capitol description and the variety of 'ordinary' religious experience at Rome -- The experience of pilgrimage in the Roman Empire: communitas, paideiā, and piety-signaling -- Experiencing curses: neurobehavioral traits of ritual and spatiality in the Roman Empire -- Ego-documents on religious experiences in Paul's Letters: 2 Corinthians 12 and related texts -- Section 2: A "thing" called body: expressing religion bodily -- Introduction to Section 2 -- Hand in hand: rethinking anatomical votives as material things -- The "lived" body in pain: illness and initiation in Lucian's Podagra and Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi -- Divinity refracted: extended agency and the cult of Symeon Stylites the Elder -- Food for the body, the body as food: Roman martyrs and the paradox of consumption -- Section 3: Lived places: from individual appropriation of space to locational group-styles -- Introduction to Section 3 -- Renewing the past: Rufinus' appropriation of the sacred site of Pan�oias (Vila Real, Portugal) -- This god is your god, this god is my god: local identities at sacralized places in Roman Syria -- Come and dine with us: invitations to ritual dining as part of social strategies in sacred spaces in Palmyra -- Does religion matter? Life, death, and interaction in the Roman suburbium.
Section 4: Switching the code: meaning-making beyond established religious frameworks -- Introduction to Section 4 -- Symbolic mourning -- P.Oxy. 1.5 and the Codex Sangermanensis as "visionary living texts": visionary habitus and processes of "textualization" and/or "scripturalization" in Late Antiquity -- To convert or not to convert: the appropriation of Jewish rituals, customs and beliefs by non-Jews -- Emperor Julian, an appropriated word, and a different view of 4th-century "lived religion" -- The appropriation of the book of Jonah in 4th century Christianity by Theodore of Mopsuestia and Jerome of Stridon -- Weapons of the (Christian) weak: pedagogy of trickery in Early Christian texts -- Biographical Notes -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Pursuing lived ancient religion -- Section 1: Experiencing the religious -- Introduction to Section 1 -- (Re-)modelling religious experience: some experiments with hymnic form in the imperial period -- Looking at the Shepherd of Hermas through the experience of lived religion -- "They are not the words of a rational man": ecstatic prophecy in Montanism -- Kyrios and despotes: addresses to deities and religious experiences -- About servants and flagellants: Seneca's Capitol description and the variety of 'ordinary' religious experience at Rome -- The experience of pilgrimage in the Roman Empire: communitas, paideiā, and piety-signaling -- Experiencing curses: neurobehavioral traits of ritual and spatiality in the Roman Empire -- Ego-documents on religious experiences in Paul's Letters: 2 Corinthians 12 and related texts -- Section 2: A "thing" called body: expressing religion bodily -- Introduction to Section 2 -- Hand in hand: rethinking anatomical votives as material things -- The "lived" body in pain: illness and initiation in Lucian's Podagra and Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi -- Divinity refracted: extended agency and the cult of Symeon Stylites the Elder -- Food for the body, the body as food: Roman martyrs and the paradox of consumption -- Section 3: Lived places: from individual appropriation of space to locational group-styles -- Introduction to Section 3 -- Renewing the past: Rufinus' appropriation of the sacred site of Pan�oias (Vila Real, Portugal) -- This god is your god, this god is my god: local identities at sacralized places in Roman Syria -- Come and dine with us: invitations to ritual dining as part of social strategies in sacred spaces in Palmyra -- Does religion matter? Life, death, and interaction in the Roman suburbium.

Section 4: Switching the code: meaning-making beyond established religious frameworks -- Introduction to Section 4 -- Symbolic mourning -- P.Oxy. 1.5 and the Codex Sangermanensis as "visionary living texts": visionary habitus and processes of "textualization" and/or "scripturalization" in Late Antiquity -- To convert or not to convert: the appropriation of Jewish rituals, customs and beliefs by non-Jews -- Emperor Julian, an appropriated word, and a different view of 4th-century "lived religion" -- The appropriation of the book of Jonah in 4th century Christianity by Theodore of Mopsuestia and Jerome of Stridon -- Weapons of the (Christian) weak: pedagogy of trickery in Early Christian texts -- Biographical Notes -- Index.

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