Beyond Priesthood: Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Roman Empire

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Beyond Priesthood

Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Roman Empire

Herausgegeben von: Richard L. Gordon , Georgia Petridou und Jörg Rüpke
Gefördert durch: European Research Council (ERC)

Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2017

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The last decade has seen a surge of scholarly interest in these religious professionals and a good number of high quality publications. Our volume, however, with its unique intercultural character and its explicit focus on appropriation and contestation of religious expertise in the Imperial Era is substantially different.

Unlike the rather narrow focus of earlier studies of civic priests, the papers presented here examine a wider range of religious professionals, their dynamic interaction with established religious authorities and institutions, and their contributions to religious innovation in the ancient Mediterranean world, from the late Hellenistic period through to Late Antiquity, from the City of Rome to mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt, from Greek civic practice to ancient Judaism.

A further advantage of our volume is the wide range of media of transmission taken into account. Our contributors look at both old and new materials, which derive not only from literary sources but also from papyri, inscriptions, and material culture. Above all, this volume assesses critically convenient terminological usage and offers a unique insight into a rich gamut of ancient Mediterranean religious specialists.

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Richard L. Gordon und Jörg Rüpke, Max-Weber Kolleg, Universität Erfurt, Georgia Petridou, Universität Liverpool, UK.

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Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	I
Table of Contents Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	V
Acknowledgements Open Access PDF downloaden	VII
Bibliographical Note Open Access PDF downloaden	IX
List of Illustrations Open Access PDF downloaden	XI
Notes on the Contributors Open Access PDF downloaden	1
Introduction Open Access PDF downloaden	5
Part I: Innovation: Forms and Limits
Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome Jörg Rüpke und Federico Santangelo Open Access PDF downloaden	15
Lucian on Peregrinus and Alexander of Abonuteichos: A sceptical view of two religious entrepreneurs Jan N. Bremmer Open Access PDF downloaden	49
Lived Religion among second-century ‘Gnostic hieratic specialists’ Nicola Denzey Lewis Open Access PDF downloaden	79
On and beyond duty: Christian clergy at Oxyrhynchus (c. 250 – 400) AnneMarie Luijendijk Open Access PDF downloaden	103
Part II: The Author as Religious Entrepreneur
Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo’s representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides Angela Standhartinger Open Access PDF downloaden	129
A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus Annette Weissenrieder Open Access PDF downloaden	157
Contesting religious and medical expertise: The therapeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical entrepreneurs Georgia Petridou Open Access PDF downloaden	185
Christians, the ‘more obvious’ representatives of the religion of Israel than the Rabbis? Markus Vinzent Open Access PDF downloaden	215
Rhetorical indications of the poet’s craft in the ancient synagogue Michael D. Swartz Open Access PDF downloaden	231
Part III: Filling in the Blanks
In search of the ‘beggar-priest’ Esther Eidinow Open Access PDF downloaden	255
Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groups in the Roman Empire Richard Gordon Open Access PDF downloaden	277
Enforcing priesthood. The struggle for the monopolisation of religious goods and the construction of the Christian religious field Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli Open Access PDF downloaden	317
Part IV: ‘Written on the Body’
Tertium genus? Representations of religious practitioners in the cult of Magna Mater Anja Klöckner Open Access PDF downloaden	343
Negotiating the body: Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius Mundus and the priests of Anubis Valentino Gasparini Open Access PDF downloaden	385
‘You can leave your hat on.’ Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status Rubina Raja Open Access PDF downloaden	417
Index rerum Open Access PDF downloaden	443

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21. August 2017

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21. August 2017

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9783110447019

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110448184

eBook ISBN: 9783110448184

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Kultpersonal; Kaiserzeit; religiöse Erneuerung; Römisches Reich

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All those interested in classical studies, history of religion, ancient history, comparative theology, history of ideas

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