RT Book
T1 On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome
T2 Townsend lectures/Cornell studies in classical philology
T2 Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
T2 De Gruyter eBook-Paket Theologie, Religionswissenschaften, Judaistik
A1 Rüpke, Jörg 1962-
LA English
PP Ithaca
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1657772012
AB Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jorg Rupke, one of the world's leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying, dedicating, making vows, and reading. On Roman Religion definitively dismantles previous approaches that depicted religious practice as uniform and static. Juxtaposing very different, strategic, and even subversive forms of individuality with traditions, their normative claims, and their institutional protections, Rupke highlights the dynamic character of Rome’s religious institutions and traditions.In Rupke’s view, lived ancient religion is as much about variations or even outright deviance as it is about attempts and failures to establish or change rules and roles and to communicate them via priesthoods, practices related to images or classified as magic, and literary practices. Rupke analyzes observations of religious experience by contemporary authors including Propertius, Ovid, and the author of the "Shepherd of Hermas." These authors, in very different ways, reflect on individual appropriation of religion among their contemporaries, and they offer these reflections to their readership or audiences. Rupke also concentrates on the ways in which literary texts and inscriptions informed the practice of rituals.
CN BL803
SN 9781501706264
K1 Experience (Religion) : History
K1 Religion : Social aspects : Rome
K1 Experience (Religion)
K1 Religion
K1 HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
DO 10.7591/9781501706264