Recent scholarship has seen a general turn from separate entities to relations and inclusivity, from static and systemic views to a focus on historical processes and fluidity. Dialectical thinking fundamentally builds on the entwinement of social interactions, inclusivity, contradictory relations, and historical movement. Yet, it is underrepresented in current research of Roman society and religion. Therefore, this volume intends to foreground dialectical thinking as a critical and constructive way to expose and analyse the dynamism, diversity, and discrepancies of religion in the Roman world. Based on critical theories and archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources, the authors discuss cults, ranging from Mars Thincsus and Mithras to Magna Mater and the deified emperors, in diverse contexts across the Mediterranean from East to West (the Hauran, Asia Minor, Jerusalem, Dalmatia, Gaul, Britain, and Rome). Together, they give a taste of the potential of dialectical approaches for enhancing our understanding of Roman society and religion.
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Recent scholarship has seen a general turn from separate entities to relations and inclusivity, from static and systemic views to a focus on historical processes and fluidity. Dialectical thinking fundamentally builds on the entwinement of social interactions, inclusivity, contradictory relations, and historical movement. Yet, it is underrepresented in current research of Roman society and religion. Therefore, this volume intends to foreground dialectical thinking as a critical and constructive way to expose and analyse the dynamism, diversity, and discrepancies of religion in the Roman world. Based on critical theories and archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources, the authors discuss cults, ranging from Mars Thincsus and Mithras to Magna Mater and the deified emperors, in diverse contexts across the Mediterranean from East to West (the Hauran, Asia Minor, Jerusalem, Dalmatia, Gaul, Britain, and Rome). Together, they give a taste of the potential of dialectical approaches for enhancing our understanding of Roman society and religion.
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Memory and Religious Experience in the Greco-Roman World
Divination in the Ancient World : Religious Options and the Individual
Religious Associations in the Post-Classical Polis
Ruling the Greek World : Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East
Citizenship and Empire in Europe 200–1900 : The Antonine Constitution after 1800 years
The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry : From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond
Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire
Norm and Exercise : Christian asceticism between late antiquity and early middle ages
Signs of weakness and crisis in the Western cities of the Roman Empire (c. II–III AD)
From "Roma quadrata" to "la grande Roma dei Tarquini" : A Study of the Literary Tradition on Rome's Territorial Growth under the Kings
Cicero and Roman Religion : Eight Studies
Pervading Empire : Relationality and Diversity in the Roman Provinces