Beyond Priesthood : : Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Roman Empire.
RGVV (History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)--contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning--and engages them from a critical historical perspective. The series publishes monographs and thematical...
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| Superior document: | Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten Series ; v.66 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2017. ©2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (474 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliographical Note
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: Innovation: Forms and Limits
- Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome
- Lucian on Peregrinus and Alexander of Abonuteichos: A sceptical view of two religious entrepreneurs
- Lived Religion among second-century 'Gnostic hieratic specialists'
- On and beyond duty: Christian clergy at Oxyrhynchus (c. 250 - 400)
- Part II: The Author as Religious Entrepreneur
- Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo's representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides
- A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus
- Contesting religious and medical expertise: The therapeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical entrepreneurs
- Christians, the 'more obvious' representatives of the religion of Israel than the Rabbis?
- Rhetorical indications of the poet's craft in the ancient synagogue
- Part III: Filling in the Blanks
- In search of the 'beggar-priest'
- Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groups in the Roman Empire
- Enforcing priesthood. The struggle for the monopolisation of religious goods and the construction of the Christian religious field
- Part IV: 'Written on the Body'
- Tertium genus? Representations of religious practitioners in the cult of Magna Mater
- Negotiating the body: Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius Mundus and the priests of Anubis
- 'You can leave your hat on.' Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status
- Index rerum.