From Jupiter to Christ on the history of religion in the Roman imperial period
The history of Roman imperial religion is of fundamental importance to the history of religion in Europe. Emerging from a decade of research, From Jupiter to Christ demonstrates that the decisive change within the Roman imperial period was not a growing number of religions or changes in their rankin...
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Oxford University Press
2014
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- Introduction : The history of religion in the Mediterranean, and the problem of imperial religion Part I : Globalization in a traditional form. 'Globalization' as a model for individual religious creativity in the Roman imperial age Integration and transformation of an immigrant religion : observations on the inscriptions of the Jupiter Dolichenus cult in Rome A Judaeo-Christian variant of professional religion in Rome : The Shepherd of Hermas Organizational patterns in respect of religious specialists in a range of Roman cults Part II : Media and vectors of the spread of religion in the Roman empire The rise of provincial religion Religion in the lex Ursonensis The export of calendars and festivals in the Roman empire Book religions as imperial religions? The local limits of supraregional religious communication Part III : The Roman world changes : religious change on a global scale Polytheism and pluralism : observations on religious competition in the Roman imperial age Religious pluralism and the Roman empire Representations of Roman religion in Christian apologetic texts Religious centralization : traditional priesthoods and the role of the Pontifex Maximus in the late imperial age Visual worlds and religious boundaries How does an empire change religion, and how religion an empire? Conclusion and perspectives regarding the question of 'imperial and provincial religion'
