Beyond Priesthood : Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Roman Empire / / Richard L. Gordon, Georgia Petridou, Jörg Rüpke |
Autore | Gordon Richard L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | De Gruyter, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (474) |
Disciplina | 230 |
Collana | Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten |
Soggetto topico |
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Religion & beliefs History of religion |
Soggetto non controllato |
Religious specialists
Roman empire imperial era religious innovation |
ISBN | 3-11-044764-9 |
Classificazione | BE 7404 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliographical Note -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Innovation: Forms and Limits -- Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome / Rüpke, Jörg / Santangelo, Federico -- Lucian on Peregrinus and Alexander of Abonuteichos: A sceptical view of two religious entrepreneurs / Bremmer, Jan N. -- Lived Religion among second-century 'Gnostic hieratic specialists' / Lewis, Nicola Denzey -- On and beyond duty: Christian clergy at Oxyrhynchus (c. 250 - 400) / Luijendijk, AnneMarie -- Part II: The Author as Religious Entrepreneur -- Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo's representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides / Standhartinger, Angela -- A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus / Weissenrieder, Annette -- Contesting religious and medical expertise: The therapeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical entrepreneurs / Petridou, Georgia -- Christians, the 'more obvious' representatives of the religion of Israel than the Rabbis? / Vinzent, Markus -- Rhetorical indications of the poet's craft in the ancient synagogue / Swartz, Michael D. -- Part III: Filling in the Blanks -- In search of the 'beggar-priest' / Eidinow, Esther -- Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groups in the Roman Empire / Gordon, Richard -- Enforcing priesthood. The struggle for the monopolisation of religious goods and the construction of the Christian religious field / Urciuoli, Emiliano Rubens -- Part IV: 'Written on the Body' -- Tertium genus? Representations of religious practitioners in the cult of Magna Mater / Klöckner, Anja -- Negotiating the body: Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius Mundus and the priests of Anubis / Gasparini, Valentino -- 'You can leave your hat on.' Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status / Raja, Rubina -- Index rerum |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996309081903316 |
Gordon Richard L | ||
De Gruyter, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Beyond Priesthood : Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Roman Empire / / Richard L. Gordon, Georgia Petridou, Jörg Rüpke |
Autore | Gordon Richard L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | De Gruyter, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (474) |
Disciplina | 230 |
Collana | Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten |
Soggetto topico |
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Religion & beliefs History of religion |
Soggetto non controllato |
Religious specialists
Roman empire imperial era religious innovation |
ISBN | 3-11-044764-9 |
Classificazione | BE 7404 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliographical Note -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Innovation: Forms and Limits -- Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome / Rüpke, Jörg / Santangelo, Federico -- Lucian on Peregrinus and Alexander of Abonuteichos: A sceptical view of two religious entrepreneurs / Bremmer, Jan N. -- Lived Religion among second-century 'Gnostic hieratic specialists' / Lewis, Nicola Denzey -- On and beyond duty: Christian clergy at Oxyrhynchus (c. 250 - 400) / Luijendijk, AnneMarie -- Part II: The Author as Religious Entrepreneur -- Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo's representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides / Standhartinger, Angela -- A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus / Weissenrieder, Annette -- Contesting religious and medical expertise: The therapeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical entrepreneurs / Petridou, Georgia -- Christians, the 'more obvious' representatives of the religion of Israel than the Rabbis? / Vinzent, Markus -- Rhetorical indications of the poet's craft in the ancient synagogue / Swartz, Michael D. -- Part III: Filling in the Blanks -- In search of the 'beggar-priest' / Eidinow, Esther -- Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groups in the Roman Empire / Gordon, Richard -- Enforcing priesthood. The struggle for the monopolisation of religious goods and the construction of the Christian religious field / Urciuoli, Emiliano Rubens -- Part IV: 'Written on the Body' -- Tertium genus? Representations of religious practitioners in the cult of Magna Mater / Klöckner, Anja -- Negotiating the body: Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius Mundus and the priests of Anubis / Gasparini, Valentino -- 'You can leave your hat on.' Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status / Raja, Rubina -- Index rerum |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910220014903321 |
Gordon Richard L | ||
De Gruyter, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Stranger at the Feast : Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community / / Tom Boylston |
Autore | Boylston Tom <1980-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, : University of California Press, 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 181 pages) : map; PDF, digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 281/.75 |
Collana | The Anthropology of Christianity |
Soggetto topico |
Mediation - Religious aspects - Christianity
Taboo - Ethiopia Christianity - Ethiopia |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
class distinctions
eating fasting feeding practices haile selassie hospitality imperial era large scale religious change local transformations modern secular state northern ethiopia orthodox christians orthodox society radical upheaval religious traditions ritual prohibition secularization of the state zege peninsula |
ISBN | 0-520-96897-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : prohibition and a ritual regime -- A history of mediation -- Fasting, bodies, and the calendar -- Proliferations of mediators -- Blood, silver, and coffee -- Spirits in the marketplace -- Concrete, bones, and feasts -- Echoes of the host -- The media landscape -- The knowledge of the world -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996328038803316 |
Boylston Tom <1980-> | ||
Oakland, : University of California Press, 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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