From Jupiter to Christ : on the history of religion in the Roman imperial period

1. Verfasser: Rüpke, Jörg
Weitere Verfasser: Richardson, David M. B.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Ausgabe: First edition.
Umfang/Format: vi, 328 pages.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Imperium Romanum
Parallelausgabe: Von Jupiter zu Christus : Religionsgeschichte in römischer Zeit. [Print]
Von Jupiter zu Christus : Religionsgeschichte in römischer Zeit. [Print]
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Online Zugang: Online available (Oxford Scholarship Online)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : The history of religion in the Mediterranean, and the problem of imperial religion
  • Part I: Globalization in a traditional form.
  • 'Globalization' as a model for individual religious creativity in the Roman imperial age
  • Integration and transformation of an immigrant religion : observations on the inscriptions of the Jupiter Dolichenus cult in Rome
  • A Judaeo-Christian variant of professional religion in Rome : The Shepherd of Hermas
  • Organizational patterns in respect of religious specialists in a range of Roman cults
  • Part II: Media and vectors of the spread of religion in the Roman empire.
  • The rise of provincial religion
  • Religion in the lex Ursonensis
  • The export of calendars and festivals in the Roman empire
  • Book religions as imperial religions? : The local limits of supraregional religious communication
  • Part III: The Roman world changes : religious change on a global scale.
  • Polytheism and pluralism : observations on religious competition in the Roman imperial age
  • religious pluralism and the Roman empire
  • Representation of Roman religion in Christian apologetic texts
  • Religious centralization : traditional priesthoods and the role of the Pontifex Maximus in the late imperial age
  • Visual worlds and religious boundaries
  • How does an empire change religion, and how religion an empire? : Conclusion and perspectives regarding the question of 'imperial and provincial religion'.