Urban Archaeology of Ancient Religion

Edited by Rubina Raja & Jörg Rüpke.

Vier Beiträge, alle in englischer Sprache: Rubina Raja/Jörg Rüpke: Introduction: Urban Archaeology. - Christopher H. Hallett: The Wood Comes to the City: Ancient Trees, Sacred Groves, and the 'Greening' of Early Augustan Rome. - Christopher P. Dickenson: From 'Civic' to 'Urban' Religion in Roman Britain. - Eivind Heldaas Seland: Trade, Traders, and Religion in Gateway-Cities of the Roman East. - From the Introduction: »The background to our approach is the application of the concept of contemporary urban religion to ancient religious practices and ancient concepts and functions of cities on the one hand and the archaeological interest in overcoming the concept of ‘site’ as something pragmatically or historically given on the other hand. Instead of inquiring into "the religion of such and such a place", "the pantheon of X" or "cults in Y", we are interested in how religious practices in fact articulate or shape urban space and urban movements, both broadly speaking and in detail, beyond major sanctuaries and procession routes, how they help to open up or keep open urban space to inter-urban flows of goods and people or how they help to articulate specific urban atmospheres or identities as seen or created by particular groups of inhabitants. The articles that have come out of our workshop, three of which form this first thematic issue, offer case studies that focus on very different strategies and mechanisms across the ancient Mediterranean. Their focus ranges from top-down centralised activities by power holders to bottom-up trajectories of competing groups or individuals, immigrants as well as ephemeral visitors or stakeholders from the region and even the intervention of specifically religious claim-makers and the establishment of religious institutions and authorities«. Seiten 217-312 [= 96 Seiten] mit 21 Farb- und 7 s/w-Abb., broschiert (RRE - Religion in the Roman Empire; Vol. 7 (2021), No. 2/Mohr Siebeck 2021) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear