Beyond priesthood : religious entrepreneurs and innovators in the Roman Empire /

The last decade has seen a surge of scholarly interest in these religious professionals and a good number of high quality publications. Our volume, however, with its unique intercultural character and its explicit focus on appropriation and contestation of religious expertise in the Imperial Era is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gordon, R. L. (Richard Lindsay) (Editor ), Petridou, Georgia (Editor ), Rüpke, Jörg (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Berlin] : De Gruyter, [2017]
Colección:Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Bd. 66.
Temas:
30-600
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 > Congresses.
Priests > Rome > Congresses.
Rome > Religious life and customs > Congresses.
Prêtres > Rome > Congrès.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive) > Congrès.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
Religion & beliefs.
History of religion.
RELIGION / General.
Church history > Primitive and early church
Priests
Rome (Empire)
Religious specialists.
Roman empire.
imperial era.
religious innovation.
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Innovation: Forms and Limits
  • Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome / Jörg Rüpke and Federico Santangelo
  • Lucian on Peregrinus and Alexander of Abonuteichos: A sceptical view of two religious entrepreneurs / Jan N. Bremmer
  • Lived Religion among second-century 'Gnostic hieratic specialists' / Nicola Denzey Lewis
  • On and beyond duty: Christian clergy at Oxyrhynchus (c. 250-400) / AnneMarie Luijendijk
  • Part II: The Author as Religious Entrepreneur
  • Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo's representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides / Angela Standhartinger
  • A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus / Annette Weissenrieder
  • Contesting religious and medical expertise: The therapeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical entrepreneurs / Georgia Petridou
  • Christians, the 'more obvious' representatives of the religion of Israel than the rabbis? / Markus Vinzent
  • Rhetorical indications of the poet's craft in the ancient synagogue / Michael D. Swartz
  • Part III: Filling in the Blanks
  • In search of the 'beggar-priest' / Esther Eidinow
  • Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groups in the Roman Empire / Richard Gordon
  • Enforcing priesthood. The struggle for the monopolisation of religious goods and the construction of the Christian religious field / Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
  • Part IV: 'Written on the Body'
  • Tertium genus? Representations of religious practitioners in the cult of Magna Mater / Anja Klöckner
  • Negotiating the body: Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius Mundus and the priests of Anubis / Valentino Gasparini
  • 'You can leave your hat on.' Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status / Rubina Raja.

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