Religious Networks in the Roman Empire

Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
Author: Anna Collar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107043441

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Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.

Religious Networks in the Roman Empire

Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
Author: Anna Collar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Religion and sociology
ISBN: 9781107732179

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Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.

Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire

Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire
Author: O. Hekster
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2009-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047428277

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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.

Religion in the Roman Empire

Religion in the Roman Empire
Author: Jörg Rüpke
Publisher: Kohlhammer Verlag
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2021-10-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3170292250

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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.

The Religions of the Roman Empire

The Religions of the Roman Empire
Author: John Ferguson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1970
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801493119

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Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
Author: Leif E. Vaage
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2010-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 155458809X

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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.

Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces

Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces
Author: Csaba Szabó
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789257859

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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.

Networks and Religion

Networks and Religion
Author: Sean F. Everton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1108416705

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This book uses social network analysis to explore the various effects that social networks have on religious belief and practice.

Sinews of Empire

Sinews of Empire
Author: Eivind Seland
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785705997

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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.

Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
Author: Leif E. Vaage
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2006-04-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0889205361

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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.