Shared Religious Sites in Late Antiquity

Negotiating Cultural and Ritual Identities in the Eastern Roman Empire
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-7965-4728-7
Verlag: Schwabe Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Gebunden, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Series "ReLAB"

The book aims at analyzing shared religious sites in the microcosm of the multireligious and multicultural Roman Empire during Late Antiquity. The main objective is to understand if some religious sites of the Eastern Roman Empire were the object of a shared attendance by groups or individuals from different religious backgrounds, and, for those which may have been, how and why this sharing happened. To facilitate comparison and to draw up models of occupancy dynamics, the contributions focus on a limited geographical and chronological area: the Eastern provinces from the 4th century onward, a turning-point in the Empire’s religious transformations. This collective work offers a series of case-studies where polemical discourses are intersected not only with legal documents, but also with epigraphy, iconography, and archeology – including architecture and artefacts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massa, Francesco

Attali, Maureen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Francesco Massa is Assistant professor at the Department of History of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) where he is leading a research project on "Religious competition in Late Antiquity: A Laboratory of New Categories, Taxonomies and Methods" (ReLAB) founded by Swiss National Science Foundation (2019–2023).
Maureen Attali has a PhD in History and Anthropology of Ancient religions (Sorbonne Université, 2017) and is postdoctoral researcher at the department of History of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) as part of the ReLAB research project.