Beyond Priesthood Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Roman Empire
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter
[2017]
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| Colección: | De Gruyter Open Access ebooks.
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; 66. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43319543*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
