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Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa (Hardcover)
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Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa (Hardcover)
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In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa,
Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred
space between practitioners of traditional Roman religion,
Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. By analyzing
literary along with archaeological evidence, Lander provides a new
understanding of ancient notions of ritual space. This regard for
ritual sites above other locations rendered the act or mere
suggestion of seizing and destroying them powerful weapons in
inter-group religious conflicts. Lander demonstrates that the
quantity and harshness of discursive and physical attacks on ritual
spaces directly correlates to their symbolic value. This heightened
valuation reached such a level that rivals were willing to violate
conventional Roman norms of property rights to display spatial
control. Moreover, Roman Imperial policy eventually appropriated
spatial triumphalism as a strategy for negotiating religious
conflicts, giving rise to a new form of spatial colonialism that
was explicitly religious.
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