Urban Religion in Late Antiquity

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2021

Urban Religion in Late Antiquity

Edited by: Asuman Lätzer-Lasar and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
In collaboration with: Rubina Raja and Jörg Rüpke

Volume 76 in the series Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110641813

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About this book

Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with “lived religion” in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material and ideational dimensions. However, this approach, if duly historicized, can be also fruitfully applied to antiquity.

Aim of the volume is the analysis of the entanglement of religious communication and city life during an arc of time that is characterised by dramatic and even contradicting developments. Bringing together textual analyses and archaelogical case studies in a comparative perspective, the volume zooms in on the historical context of the advanced imperial and late antique Mediterranean space (2nd–8th centuries CE).

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Asuman Lätzer-Lasar and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli, University of Erfurt, Germany.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Intersecting religion and urbanity in late antiquity Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli Open Access Download PDF	1
A tale of no cities Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli Open Access Download PDF	15
The children of Cain Clifford Ando Open Access Download PDF	51
Faith and the city in the 4^th century CE Teresa Morgan Open Access Download PDF	69
Intellectualizing religion in the cities of the Roman Empire Heidi Wendt Open Access Download PDF	97
The city of the dead or: the making of a cultural geography Lara Weiss Open Access Download PDF	123
A new “topography of devotion” Michele Renee Salzman Open Access Download PDF	149
City of prophecies Paroma Chatterjee Open Access Download PDF	169
Creating a city of believers: Rabbula of Edessa Hartmut Leppin Open Access Download PDF	185
Sacred spaces and new cities in the Byzantine East Michael Blömer Open Access Download PDF	205
Roman baths as locations of religious practice Dirk Steuernagel Open Access Download PDF	225
Index Open Access Download PDF	261

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 266
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 14
- Coloured Illustrations: 8
Keywords: Urban religion; late antiquity; religious changes; urban transformations

eBook

Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9783110641813

Hardcover

Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9783110641172