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The gods were the true heroes of Rome. In this major new contribution to our understanding of ancient history, Jrg Rpke guides the reader through the fascinating world of Roman religion, describing its unique characteristics and bringing its pecul...

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Emerging from a decade of research, From Jupiter to Christ demonstrates that the decisive change within the Roman imperial period was not a growing number of religions or changes in their ranking and success, but a modification of the idea of 'rel...

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This magisterial volume, indispensable to the study of Roman religion, presents yearly lists of religious office-holders of various kinds, followed by 4,000 individual biographies. Introductory essays cover the documentary sources for pagan, Jewis...

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Covering the Hellenistic and Imperial periods in both pagan polytheistic as well as Jewish monotheistic settings, this edited collection focuses on individuation in everyday religious practices across the ancient Mediterranean as identified in ins...

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This book focuses on religious tolerance and intolerance in terms of practices, institutions, and intellectual habits. It brings together an array of historical and anthropological studies and philosophical, cognitive, and psychological exploratio...

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Religion and its History offers a reflection of our operative concept of religion and religions, developing a set of approaches that bridge the widely assumed gulf between analysing present religion and doing history of religion. Religious Studies...

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Religion and its History offers a reflection of our operative concept of religion and religions, developing a set of approaches that bridge the widely assumed gulf between analysing present religion and doing history of religion. Religious Studies...

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This book provides a definitive account of the history of the Roman calendar, offering new reconstructions of its development that demand serious revisions to previous accounts. Examines the critical stages of the technical, political, and religio...

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The gods were the true heroes of Rome. In this major new contribution to our understanding of ancient history, Jrg Rpke guides the reader through the fascinating world of Roman religion, describing its unique characteristics and bringing its pecul...

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To understand the past, we necessarily group people together and, consequently, frequently assume that all of its members share the same attributes. In this ground-breaking volume, ric Rebillard and Jrg Rpke bring renowned scholars together to cha...

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Religious individuality is not restricted to modernity. This book offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for the spectrum of religious practices and intensified forms of such practices only occasionally denounced ...

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A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world. Feat...

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A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the spra...

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A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the spra...

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Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire. Religious Studies Review Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latit...

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Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire. Religious Studies Review Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latit...

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Die Herausforderung religionsgeschichtlicher Forschung besteht darin, die Erschließung von Quellen in ihren Kontexten und ihre theoriegeleitete Erklärung mit einer historisch-kritischen Reflexion der Wissensproduktion selbst zu verknüpfen. Die Rei...

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This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity. Texts offer opportunities to express ones own religious experience and shape ones own religious pe...

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The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume b...

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History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense of ones situation, to establish identity, define otherness, and explain change. This is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history a...

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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 contes...

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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 socie...

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This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity. Texts offer opportunities to express ones own religious experience and shape ones own religious pe...

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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. ...

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Die rmische Kaiserzeit stellt insgesamt eine Epoche dar, deren religise Transformationen die nachantike mediterrane, europische und westasiatische Religionsgeschichte geprgt haben. Trotz oder gerade wegen der Flle der Details, die wir aus dieser E...

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Dieser Band bietet einen Einblick in die Arbeit der Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe Religise Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive", erschliet bibliographisch ihre Ergebnisse und fasst sie zusammen: Individualisierung ist keine Folge der Mod...

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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 coul...

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Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis einer gleichnamigen Tagung, die unter Leitung der Herausgeber im Oktober 1998 in der Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, Bad Homburg, durchgefhrt wurde. Die in dem frheren Band Rmische Reichsreligion und Provinzialreligi...

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Die Autoren der Beitrge in diesem Band, der aus einem Kolloquium des Schwerpunktprogramm "Rmische Reichs- und Provinzialreligion" erwachsen ist, konzentrieren sich auf eine besondere Sozialform von Religion, nmlich auf Religionen, die si...

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Welchen Einfluss hatte die Ausbildung des Imperium Romanum auf die Religionsgeschichte des dadurch integrierten Raumes? In einer Reihe von Fllen untersttzt religise Kommunikation die neuen Herrschaftsstrukturen, Rom kann sich hier Mechanismen zunu...

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