Hand in hand: rethinking anatomical votives as material things

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Pursuing lived ancient religion 1
4. Section 1: Experiencing the religious
5. Introduction to Section 1 11
6. (Re-)modelling religious experience: some experiments with hymnic form in the imperial period 23
7. Looking at the Shepherd of Hermas through the experience of lived religion 49
8. “They are not the words of a rational man”: ecstatic prophecy in Montanism 71
9. Kyrios and despotes: addresses to deities and religious experiences 87
10. About servants and flagellants: Seneca’s Capitol description and the variety of ‘ordinary’ religious experience at Rome 117
11. The experience of pilgrimage in the Roman Empire: communitas, paideiā, and piety-signaling 137
12. Experiencing curses: neurobehavioral traits of ritual and spatiality in the Roman Empire 157
13. Ego-documents on religious experiences in Paul’s Letters: 2 Corinthians 12 and related texts 181
14. Section 2: A “thing” called body: expressing religion bodily
15. Introduction to Section 2 201
16. Hand in hand: rethinking anatomical votives as material things 209
17. The “lived” body in pain: illness and initiation in Lucian’s Podagra and Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi 237
18. Divinity refracted: extended agency and the cult of Symeon Stylites the Elder 261
19. Food for the body, the body as food: Roman martyrs and the paradox of consumption 287
20. Section 3: Lived places: from individual appropriation of space to locational group-styles
21. Introduction to Section 3 309
22. Renewing the past: Rufinus’ appropriation of the sacred site of Panóias (Vila Real, Portugal) 319
23. This god is your god, this god is my god: local identities at sacralized places in Roman Syria 351
24. Come and dine with us: invitations to ritual dining as part of social strategies in sacred spaces in Palmyra 385
25. Does religion matter? Life, death, and interaction in the Roman suburbium 405
26. Section 4: Switching the code: meaning-making beyond established religious frameworks
27. Introduction to Section 4 437
28. Symbolic mourning 447
29. P.Oxy. 1.5 and the Codex Sangermanensis as “visionary living texts”: visionary habitus and processes of “textualization” and/or “scripturalization” in Late Antiquity 469
30. To convert or not to convert: the appropriation of Jewish rituals, customs and beliefs by non-Jews 493
31. Emperor Julian, an appropriated word, and a different view of 4th-century “lived religion” 517
32. The appropriation of the book of Jonah in 4th century Christianity by Theodore of Mopsuestia and Jerome of Stridon 531
33. Weapons of the (Christian) weak: pedagogy of trickery in Early Christian texts 553
34. Biographical Notes 581
35. Index 587