Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics
New publication by Professor Rubina Raja, Valentino Gasparini (University of Madrid), Maik Patzelt (University of Osnabrück), Anna-Katharina Rieger (University of Graz), Jörg Rüpke and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli (both University of Erfurt).
Gasparini, V., Patzelt, M., Raja, R., Rieger, A.-K., Rüpke, J. & Rubens Urciuoli, E. (2020). Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics, Berlin & Boston.
6 April 2020, a new publication within the framework of the ERC project Lived Ancient Religion (2012-2017) will be published.
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. Following several conferences and more than a hundred publications, the project ended with a final conference held at Eisenach in April 2017. Many of the revised contributions to that conference are included in this volume, all of which deliberately apply the “lived ancient religion approach” to new fields and new foci.
The contributions in this volume are therefore written by specialists from a variety of disciplinary contexts (Jewish Studies, Theology, Classics, Early Christian Studies) dealing with the history of religion of the Mediterranean, West-Asian, and European area from the (late) Hellenistic period to the (early) Middle Ages and shaped by their intensive exchange. From the point of view of their respective fields of research, the contributors engage with discourses on agency, embodiment, appropriation and experience. They present innovative research in four fields also of theoretical debate, which are “Experiencing the Religious”, “Switching the Code”, “A Thing Called Body“ and “Commemorating the Moment”.
Contribution by Professor and Centre Director Rubina Raja:
Gasparini, V., Patzelt, M., Raja, R., Rieger, A.-K., Rüpke, J. & Rubens Urciuoli, E. (2020).”Pursuing lived ancient religion” in: Gasparini, V., Patzelt, M., Raja, R., Rieger, A.-K., Rüpke, J. & Rubens Urciuoli, E. (eds), Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics, Berlin & Boston, 1-10.
Raja, R. (2020). “Come and dine with us: Invitations to ritual dining as part of social strategies in sacred spaces in Palmyra”, in: Gasparini, V., Patzelt, M., Raja, R., Rieger, A.-K., Rüpke, J. & Rubens Urciuoli, E. (eds), Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics, Berlin & Boston, 385-404.