On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

✍ Scribed by Jörg Rüpke

Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 208
Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; 67
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Jorg Rupke, one of the world's leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying, dedicating, making vows, and reading.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Individual Appropriation of Religion
2. Individual Decision and Social Order
3. Appropriating Images—Embodying Gods
4. Testing the Limits of Ritual Choices
5. Reconstructing Religious Experience
6. Dynamics of Individual Appropriation
7. Religious Communication
8. Instructing Literary Practice in The Shepherd of Hermas
Conclusion
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Passages

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