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Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy (Hardcover)
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Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy (Hardcover)
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This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy
involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency
generated when ritualised activities caused human and
more-than-human things to become bundled together into relational
assemblages. Drawing upon broadly posthumanist and new materialist
theories concerning the thingliness of things, it sets out to
re-evaluate the role of the material world within Roman religion
and to offer new perspectives on the formation of multi-scalar
forms of ancient religious knowledge. It explores what happens when
a materially informed approach is systematically applied to the
investigation of typical questions about Roman religion such as:
What did Romans understand 'religion' to mean? What did religious
experiences allow people to understand about the material world and
their own place within it? How were experiences of ritual connected
with shared beliefs or concepts about the relationship between the
mortal and divine worlds? How was divinity constructed and
perceived? To answer these questions, it gathers and evaluates
archaeological evidence associated with a series of case studies.
Each of these focuses on a key component of the ritualised
assemblages shown to have produced Roman religious agency - place,
objects, bodies, and divinity - and centres on an examination of
experiences of lived religion as it related to the contexts of
monumentalised sanctuaries, cult instruments used in public
sacrifice, anatomical votive offerings, cult images and the
qualities of divinity, and magic as a situationally specific form
of religious knowledge. By breaking down and then reconstructing
the ritualised assemblages that generated and sustained Roman
religion, this book makes the case for adopting a material approach
to the study of ancient lived religion.
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