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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463969203321

Autore

Collar Anna <1979->

Titolo

Religious networks in the Roman empire : the spread of new ideas / / Anna Collar [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-72104-0

1-139-89363-7

1-107-72806-1

1-107-73042-2

1-107-73217-4

1-107-72866-5

1-107-72405-8

1-107-33836-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

200.937

Soggetti

Social networks - Rome

Religion and sociology - Rome

Rome Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The network approach -- Networks and religion in the Roman world -- Jupiter Dolichenus in the west: the rabbinic reforms, the fiscus Judaicus and the redefinition of the Jewish-gentile relationship -- Conclusions: religion and social networks in archaeology and ancient history.

Sommario/riassunto

The first three centuries AD saw the spread of new religious ideas through the Roman Empire, crossing a vast and diverse geographical, social and cultural space. In this innovative study, Anna Collar explores both how this happened and why. Drawing on research in the sociology and anthropology of religion, physics and computer science, Collar explores the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to explore why some religious movements succeed, while others, seemingly equally successful at a certain time, ultimately fail. Using extensive epigraphic data, Collar provides new interpretations of



the diffusion of ideas across the social networks of the Jewish Diaspora and the cults of Jupiter Dolichenus and Theos Hypsistos, and in turn offers important reappraisals of the spread of religious innovations in the Roman Empire. This study will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of ancient history, archaeology, ancient religion and network theory.