Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groups in the Roman Empire

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Bibliographical Note IX
5. List of Illustrations XI
6. Notes on the Contributors 1
7. Introduction 5
8. Part I: Innovation: Forms and Limits
9. Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome 15
10. Lucian on Peregrinus and Alexander of Abonuteichos: A sceptical view of two religious entrepreneurs 49
11. Lived Religion among second-century ‘Gnostic hieratic specialists’ 79
12. On and beyond duty: Christian clergy at Oxyrhynchus (c. 250 – 400) 103
13. Part II: The Author as Religious Entrepreneur
14. Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo’s representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides 129
15. A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus 157
16. Contesting religious and medical expertise: The therapeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical entrepreneurs 185
17. Christians, the ‘more obvious’ representatives of the religion of Israel than the Rabbis? 215
18. Rhetorical indications of the poet’s craft in the ancient synagogue 231
19. Part III: Filling in the Blanks
20. In search of the ‘beggar-priest’ 255
21. Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groups in the Roman Empire 277
22. Enforcing priesthood. The struggle for the monopolisation of religious goods and the construction of the Christian religious field 317
23. Part IV: ‘Written on the Body’
24. Tertium genus? Representations of religious practitioners in the cult of Magna Mater 343
25. Negotiating the body: Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius Mundus and the priests of Anubis 385
26. ‘You can leave your hat on.’ Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status 417
27. Index rerum 443