On Roman Religion (eBook)

Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

Jörg Rüpke (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
210 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-0679-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• Religious Studies Review

Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying, dedicating, making vows, and reading. On Roman Religion definitively dismantles previous approaches that depicted religious practice as uniform and static. Juxtaposing very different, strategic, and even subversive forms of individuality with traditions, their normative claims, and their institutional protections, Rüpke highlights the dynamic character of Rome’s religious institutions and traditions.

In Rüpke’s view, lived ancient religion is as much about variations or even outright deviance as it is about attempts and failures to establish or change rules and roles and to communicate them via priesthoods, practices related to images or classified as magic, and literary practices. Rüpke analyzes observations of religious experience by contemporary authors including Propertius, Ovid, and the author of the "Shepherd of Hermas." These authors, in very different ways, reflect on individual appropriation of religion among their contemporaries, and they offer these reflections to their readership or audiences. Rüpke also concentrates on the ways in which literary texts and inscriptions informed the practice of rituals.

Autor

Jörg Rüpke is Permanent Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt. He is the author of many books, including From Jupiter to Christ: On the History of Religion in the Roman Imperial Period, Religion: Antiquity and Modern Legacy, and Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
• Reihe/Serie: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: Ancient history • ancient Roman cultic • ancient roman history • ancient Roman religion • ancient Roman religious experiences • ancient Roman religious history • ancient Roman religious texts • ancient Roman religious traditions • ancient Roman traditions • Ancient Rome • Classical Studies • historian of Roman religion • History of Religion • history of Roman religion • Late Antiquity • late Republic history • Late Roman Republic • Ovid • pre-Christian European societies • Propertius • religion in the ancient Roman • religion of the romans • religious experiences • religious practice of pre-Christian European societies. • Religious Studies • Roman cultural history • Roman Culture • Roman Religion • Roman studies • Rome’s religious institutions • Shepherd of Hermas • State Religion • state religion, ancient history, religion of the romans, religion in the ancient Roman, Religious Studies, religious experiences
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-0679-9 / 1501706799
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-0679-0 / 9781501706790