| Other author/creator | Lätzer-Lasar, Asuman editor. |
| Other author/creator | Urciuoli, Emiliano Rubens, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Raja, Rubina, 1975- contributor. |
| Other author/creator | Rüpke, Jörg contributor. |
| Series |
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 0939-2580
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Bd. 76. ^A490443
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| Contents |
Intersecting religion and urbanity in late antiquity / Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke, and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli -- A tale of no cities / Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli -- The children of Cain / Clifford Ando -- Faith and the city in the 4th century CE / Teresa Morgan -- Intellectualizing religion in the cities of the Roman Empire / Heidi Wendt -- The city of the dead or: the making of a cultural geography / Lara Weiss -- A new "topography of devotion" / Michele Renee Salzman -- City of prophecies / Paroma Chatterjee -- Creating a city of believers: Rabbula of Edessa / Hartmut Leppin -- Sacred spaces and new cities in the Byzantine East / Michael Blömer -- Roman baths as locations of religious practice / Dirk Steuernagel. |
| Abstract |
Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with "lived religion" in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material and ideational dimensions. However, this approach, if duly historicized, can be also fruitfully applied to antiquity. Aim of the volume is the analysis of the entanglement of religious communication and city life during an arc of time that is characterised by dramatic and even contradicting developments. Bringing together textual analyses and archaelogical case studies in a comparative perspective, the volume zooms in on the historical context of the advanced imperial and late antique Mediterranean space (2nd-8th centuries CE). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9783110641172 |
| ISBN | 3110641178 hardcover |
