Individuals and materials in the Greco-Roman cults of Isis : : agents, images, and practices / / editors, Valentino Gasparini, Richard Veymiers.

• Superior document: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World ; Volume 187
• Author: Colloque international sur les études isiaques Erfurt, Germany ; Liege, Belgium),
• TeilnehmendeR: Gasparini, Valentino,; Veymiers, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English; French
• Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; 187.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1,191 pages).
• Notes: Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of Isis Studies (Erfurt, May 6-8, 2013 - Liege, September 23-24, 2013).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Preface /; Acknowledgments --; Participants --; List of Plates, Graphs and Tables --; Abbreviations --; Agents, Images, Practices* /; -- Priests and Worshippers --; Theorising Religion for the Individual* /; Identités religieuses isiaques : pour la définition d’une catégorie historico-religieuse* /; What is a Priest of Ēse, of Wusa, and of Isis in the Egyptian and Nubian World? /; What is an Isiac Priest in the Greek World?* /; Les prêtres isiaques du monde romain /; Isis Names in Graeco-Roman Egypt /; Social Agentivity in the Eastern Mediterranean Cult of Isis* /; Isiastai Sarapiastai: Isiac Cult Associations in the Eastern Mediterranean* /; Images and Objects --; L’apparence des isiaques : la réalité des stéréotypes littéraires /; La figure de Pharaon dans la Mensa isiaca et ses avatars italiens. Du temple pharaonique au temple isiaque /; Du blanc, du noir et de la bigarrure : le jeu des couleurs dans les représentations d’isiaques /; Ministers of Isiac Cults in Roman Wall Painting* /; De « Scipion l’Africain » aux « prêtres isiaques » : à propos des portraits au crâne rasé avec cicatrice(s) /; Mourir en isiaque ? Réflexions sur les portraits de momie de l’Égypte romaine* /; The Garments of the Devotees of Isis* /; Les dévotes isiaques et les atours de leur déesse /; Roman Children and the “Horus Lock” between Cult and Image* /; Des empereurs aux traits isiaques ? Images et contextes* /; -- Rites and Practices --; Archéologie des Isea: sur la difficile reconnaissance des pratiques isiaques /; Material Evidence and the Isiac Cults: Art and Experience in the Sanctuary /; Les préposés au luminaire dans les cultes isiaques /; Pèlerinages isiaques /; Dreams and Other Divine Communications from the Isiac Gods in the Greek and Latin Epigraphical Record* /; Comments on the Egyptian Background of the Priests’ Procession during the Navigium Isidis* /; Jouer, chanter et danser pour Isis /; Les acteurs sur scène. Théâtre et théâtralisation dans les cultes isiaques* /; Postface* /; Plates --; Back Matter --; Bibliography.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004381341
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: editors, Valentino Gasparini, Richard Veymiers.

In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a long time have been studied in a monolithic way through the prism of the Cumontian category of the “Oriental religions”. The 26 contributions of this book, divided into three sections devoted to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, shed new light on this religious movement that appears much more heterogeneous and colorful than previously recognized.