Book Description
Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.
Author : Anna Collar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107043441
Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.
Author : Anna Collar
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion and sociology
ISBN : 9781107732179
Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.
Author : O. Hekster
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9047428277
This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact the Roman Empire had on changes in ritual and further religious behaviour in the empire.
Author : Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : Kohlhammer Verlag
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3170292250
The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.
Author : John Ferguson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801493119
Author : Leif E. Vaage
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 155458809X
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question of social rivalry. The book is divided into three main sections. The first section debates the degree to which the category of rivalry adequately names the issue(s) that must be addressed when comparing and contrasting the social “success” of different religious groups in antiquity. The second is a critical assessment of the common modern category of “mission” to describe the inner dynamic of such a process; it discusses the early Christian apostle Paul, the early Jewish historian Josephus, and ancient Mithraism. The third section of the book is devoted to “the rise of Christianity,” primarily in response to the similarly titled work of the American sociologist of religion Rodney Stark. While it is not clear that any of these groups imagined its own success necessarily entailing the elimination of others, it does seem that early Christianity had certain habits, both of speech and practice, which made it particularly apt to succeed (in) the Roman Empire.
Author : Csaba Szabó
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789257859
The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where the dominant, pre-Roman cultures (Celtic, Illyrian, Hellenistic, Thracian) are interconnected within the new administrative, economic and cultural units of Roman cities, provinces and extra-provincial networks. This book presents the material evidence of Roman religion in the Danubian provinces through a new, paradigmatic methodology, focusing not only on the traditional urban and provincial units of the Roman Empire, but on a new space taxonomy. Roman religion and its sacralized places are presented in macro-, meso- and micro-spaces of a dynamic empire, which shaped Roman religion in the 1st-3rd centuries AD and created a large number of religious glocalizations and appropriations in Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Moesia Superior, Moesia Inferior and Dacia. Combining the methodological approaches of Roman provincial archaeology and religious studies, this work intends to provoke a dialogue between disciplines rarely used together in central-east Europe and beyond. The material evidence of Roman religion is interpreted here as a dynamic agent in religious communication, shaped by macro-spaces, extra-provincial routes, commercial networks, but also by the formation and constant dynamics of small group religions interconnected within this region through human and material mobilities. The book will also present for the first time a comprehensive list of sacralized spaces and divinities in the Danubian provinces.
Author : John K. Chow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567111865
From 1 Corinthians we know that the church at Corinth was beset by all sorts of problems. Some of these problems resulted from contacts with the pagan world - one member of the church cohabited with his stepmother, one brought a suit against another brother before the pagan magistrate, some ate idolatrous feasts at the pagan temple, and others underwent baptism for the dead. This refreshing and stimulating book seeks to understand the significance of these problems from the perspective of the social structures and conditions of this Graeco-Roman city, and places Paul's response to them in the same context.
Author : Sean F. Everton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1108416705
This book uses social network analysis to explore the various effects that social networks have on religious belief and practice.
Author : Eivind Seland
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1785705997
A recent surge of interest in network approaches to the study of the ancient world has enabled scholars of the Roman Empire to move beyond traditional narratives of domination, resistance, integration and fragmentation. This relational turn has not only offers tools to identify, map, visualize and, in some cases, even quantify interaction based on a variety of ancient source material, but also provides a terminology to deal with the everyday ties of power, trade, and ideology that operated within, below, and beyond the superstructure of imperial rule. Thirteen contributions employ a range of quantitative, qualitative and descriptive network approaches in order to provide new perspectives on trade, communication, administration, technology, religion and municipal life in the Roman Near East and adjacent regions.