Title:
Pantheon : a new history of Roman religion / Jörg Rüpke ; translated by David M.B. Richardson.
Author:
Rüpke, Jörg, author.
Publication Information:
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
©2018
Call Number:
BL803 .R84513 2018
Abstract:
In this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium--from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial period and up to late antiquity. While focused primarily on the city of Rome, Pantheon fully integrates the many religious traditions found in the Mediterranean world, including Judaism and Christianity. This generously illustrated book is also distinguished by its unique emphasis on lived religion, a perspective that stresses how individuals' experiences and practices transform religion into something different from its official form. The result is a radically new picture of both Roman religion and a crucial period in Western religion--one that influenced Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and even the modern idea of religion itself.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9780691156835
Physical Description:
xv, 551 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
A history of Mediterranean religion -- Revolutions in religious media in Iron Age Italy: the ninth to seventh centuries BC -- Religious infrastructure: the seventh to the fifth centuries BC -- Religious practices: the sixth to third centuries BC -- The appropriation and shaping of religious practices by religious actors: the fifth to first centuries BC -- Speaking and writing about religion: the third to first centuries BC -- The redoubling of religion in the Augustan saddle period: the first century BC to the first century AD -- Lived religion: the first to second centuries AD -- New gods: the first century BC to the second century AD -- Experts and providers: the first to third centuries AD -- Notional and real communities: the first to third centuries AD -- Demarcations and modes of community: the third to fourth centuries AD -- Epilogue.
Uniform Title:
Pantheon. English
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