Religion in the Roman Empire

323 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.

• Reihe: Die Religionen der Menschheit
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Religion, allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• ISBN: 9783170292246
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2021
• Größe: 20.3 x 16.2 cm
• Verlag: Kohlhammer
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Peter Antes
• Herausgegeben von: Jörg Rüpke
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Richard Gordon, Georgia Petridou, Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke, Miguel John Versluys, Heidi Wendt, Greg Woolf, Rubina Raja, William van Andringa, Greg Woolf, Manfred Hutter, Jörg Rüpke