Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World : : Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2020. ©2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (606 pages) |
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Table of 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 Panóias (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.