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From Jupiter to Christ - On the History of Religion in the Roman Imperial Period (Hardcover)
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From Jupiter to Christ - On the History of Religion in the Roman Imperial Period (Hardcover)
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The history of Roman imperial religion is of fundamental importance
to the history of religion in Europe. Emerging from a decade of
research, From Jupiter to Christ demonstrates that the decisive
change within the Roman imperial period was not a growing number of
religions or changes in their ranking and success, but a
modification of the idea of 'religion' and a change in the social
place of religious practices and beliefs. Religion is shown to be
transformed from a medium serving the individual necessities -
dealing with human contingencies like sickness, insecurity, and
death - and a medium serving the public formation of political
identity, into an encompassing system of ways of life, group
identities, and political legitimation. Instead of offering an
encyclopaedic presentation of religious beliefs, symbols, and
practices throughout the period, the volume thematically presents
the media that manifested and diffused religion (institutions,
texts, and law), and analyses representative cases. It asks how
religion changed in processes of diffusion and immigration, how
fast (or how slow) practices and institutions were appropriated and
modified, and reveals how these changes made Roman religion
'exportable', creating those forms of intellectualisation and
enscripturation which made religion an autonomous area, different
from other social fields.
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