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Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Interaction with religions was one of the most demanding tasks for imperial leaders. Religions could be the glue that held an empire together, bolstering the legitimacy of individual rulers and of the imperial enterprise as a whole. Yet, they could also challenge this legitimacy and jeopardize an empire's cohesiveness. As empires by definition ruled heterogeneous populations, they had to interact with a variety of religious cults, creeds, and establishments....
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Die klassische Mythologie überlebte die Christianisierung des Römischen Reiches und das Ende der Antike; das ist ein ebenso bekannter wie bei näherem Zusehen überraschender Befund, der unterschiedlich beschrieben werden kann. So war in den Literaturwissenschaften lange von der christlichen Gefangenschaft der Mythologie die Rede. Der Band, der Beiträge verschiedener Sprachen und Disziplinen vereint, versucht zu differenzieren und fragt danach,...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with "lived religion" in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material and ideational dimensions. However, this approach, if duly historicized, can be also fruitfully applied to antiquity. Aim of the volume is the analysis of the entanglement...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Dieser Band bietet einen Einblick in die Arbeit der Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive", erschließt bibliographisch ihre Ergebnisse und fasst sie zusammen: Individualisierung ist keine Folge der Modernisierung. Religion ist Motor, nicht Gegenspieler von Individualisierung. Religiöse Individualisierung ist außerhalb des "Westens" und vor verschiedenen "Modernen" ebenso zu finden wie in ihnen.
This...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The last decade has seen a surge of scholarly interest in these religious professionals and a good number of high quality publications. Our volume, however, with its unique intercultural character and its explicit focus on appropriation and contestation of religious expertise in the Imperial Era is substantially different. Unlike the rather narrow focus of earlier studies of civic priests, the papers presented here examine a wider range of religious...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in constant flux. This volume addresses the internal and external dynamics, interactions between individuals, religious communities, and local as well as global society. The contributions concentrate on four areas: 1. Contemporary religion in the public sphere: The Tactics of (In)visibility among Religious Communities in Europe; Religion Intersecting De-nationalization...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by specialists...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
In interdisciplinary projects and research collaborations, participants face multiple demands. However, these expectations encounter a reality that is characterized by time pressure, high demands in one's own discipline, and often increasingly administrative tasks. What can meaningful interdisciplinary work look like in an academic environment? What tasks and constraints do researchers face? And, considering the range of disciplines involved, how...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project 'Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective' (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods,...