A companion to Roman religion/

Other Authors: Rupke, Jorg
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden ; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2011
Series:Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Roman religion
  • religions of Rome / Jo?rg Ru?pke
  • Approaching Roman religion : the case for Wissenschaftsgeschichte / C. Robert Phillips, III
  • Changes
  • The religion of archaic Rome / Christopher Smith
  • Pre-Roman Italy, before and under the Romans / Oliver de Cazanove
  • Urban religion in the middle and late republic / Eric Orlin
  • Continuity and change : religion in the Augustan semi-century / Karl Galinsky
  • Religions and the integration of cities in the empire in the second century AD : the creation of a common religious language / William Van Andringa
  • Old religions transformed : religions and religious policy from Decius to Constantine / Hartmut Leppin
  • Religious koine and religious dissent in the fourth century / Michele Renee Salzman
  • Media
  • The history of Roman religion in Roman historiography and epic / Denis Feeney
  • Religion and Roman coins / Jonathan Williams
  • Reliefs, public and private / Katja Moede
  • Inscriptions as sources of knowledge for religions and cults in the Roman world of imperial times / Rudolf Haensch
  • Religion in the house / Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann
  • Symbols and practices
  • Roman cult sites : a pragmatic approach / Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser
  • Complex rituals : games and processions in republican Rome / Frank Bernstein
  • Performing the sacred : prayers and hymns / Frances Hickson Hahn
  • Music and dance : forms of representation in pictorial and written sources / Friederike Fless and Katja Moede
  • Sacrifices for gods and ancestors / John Scheid
  • Actors and actions
  • Religious actors in daily life : practices and related beliefs / Nicole Belayche
  • Republican nobiles : controlling the res publica / Veit Rosenberger
  • Emperors : caring for the empire and their successors / Peter Herz
  • Urban elites in the Roman East : enhancing regional positions and social superiority / Athanasios Ritzakis
  • Living on religion : professionals and personnel / Marietta Horster
  • Different religious identities
  • Roman diaspora Judaism / Jack N. Lightstone
  • Creating one's own religion : intellectual choices / Attilio Mastrocinque
  • Institutionalized religious options : mithraism / Richard Gordon
  • The Romanness of Roman Christianity / Stefan Heid
  • Roman religion outside and seen from outside
  • Exporting Roman religion / Clifford Ando
  • Religion in the Roman East / Ted Kaizer
  • Roman religion in the vision of Tertullian / Cecilia Ames.