Emperor Worship And Roman Religion

Author : Ittai Gradel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
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Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0199275483

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While Roman religion worshipped a number of gods, one kind in particular aroused the fury of early Christians and the wonder of scholars: the cult of Roman emperors alive or dead. Was the divinity of emperors a glue that held the Empire together? Were rulers such as Julius Caesar and Caligula simply mad to expect such worship of themselves? Or was it rather a phenomenon which has only been rendered incomprehensible by modern and monotheistic ideas of what religion is--or should be--all about? This book presents the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, both in Rome and in its heartland Italy. It argues that emperor worship was indeed perfectly in keeping with Roman religious tradition, which has been generally misunderstood by a posterity imbued with radically different notions of the relationship between humans and the divine.

Author : Louis Matthews Sweet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Cults
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011934580

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Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781622751594

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Roman Gods & Goddesses by Britannica Educational Publishing Pdf

While the ancient Roman pantheon in many ways resembles that of ancient Greece, there is much that sets apart Roman mythology. Romans also borrowed from the religions of ancient Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Middle East, and legendary figures such as Romulus and Remus, tied closely to the history of Rome, feature prominently in ancient stories. The major and lesser figures of Roman mythology are presented in this vibrant volume with sidebars spotlighting related facts and concepts about Roman mythology and religion.

Author : Valerie M. Warrior
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521825115

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Roman Religion by Valerie M. Warrior Pdf

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Author : S. R. F. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 052131268X

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Rituals and Power by S. R. F. Price Pdf

Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman Emperor was treated like a god.

Author : Douglas Boin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024014

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Ostia in Late Antiquity by Douglas Boin Pdf

'Ostia in Late Antiquity' narrates the life of Ostia Antica, Rome's ancient harbor, during the later empire.

Author : William Reginald Halliday
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1330362462

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Lectures on the History of Roman Religion by William Reginald Halliday Pdf

Excerpt from Lectures on the History of Roman Religion: From Numa to Augustus This little book does not aim at making any original contribution to knowledge. It has been written out from the notes of a course on lectures, which were actually delivered as public lectures in our Institute of Archaeology, but were primarily designed for students in the first or second year of study in the Honours School of Classics in Liverpool University. Their aim was to summarise very briefly the character and the historical development of Roman religion up to the death of Augustus. It had been intended that the story should be completed by a similar course upon the conflict of religions under the Roman Empire to be given by my friend and colleague, Mr. H. A. Ormerod. Unforeseen contingencies have caused what I hope may be only a postponement. These circumstances may be allowed to explain the meagre treatment here allotted to the introduction of Oriental cults and to the antecedents of Emperor worship, for these topics belong essentially to this second chapter in the history of Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : 0199913706

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Oxford Bibliographies by Ilan Stavans Pdf

"An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.

Author : Louis Matthews Sweet
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341118916

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Author : Michael Peppard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199877041

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The Son of God in the Roman World by Michael Peppard Pdf

Winner of the 2013 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise Michael Peppard examines the social and political meaning of divine sonship in the Roman Empire. He begins by analyzing the conceptual framework within which the term ''son of God'' has traditionally been considered in biblical scholarship. Then, through engagement with recent scholarship in Roman history - including studies of family relationships, imperial ideology, and emperor worship - he offers new ways of interpreting the Christian theological metaphors of ''begotten''and ''adoptive'' sonship. Peppard focuses on social practices and political ideology, revealing that scholarship on divine sonship has been especially hampered by mistaken assumptions about adopted sons. He invites fresh readings of several early Christian texts, from the first Gospel to writings of the fourth century. By re-interpreting several ancient phenomena - particularly divine status, adoption, and baptism - he offers an imaginative refiguring of the Son of God in the Roman world.

Author : Ittai Gradel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191541490

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Emperor Worship and Roman Religion by Ittai Gradel Pdf

While Roman religion worshipped a number of gods, one kind in particular aroused the fury of early Christians and the wonder of scholars: the cult of Roman emperors alive or dead. Was the divinity of emperors a glue that held the Empire together? Were rulers such as Julius Caesar and Caligula simply mad to expect such worship of themselves? Or was it rather a phenomenon which has only been rendered incomprehensible by modern and monotheistic ideas of what religion is - or should be - all about? This book presents the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, both in Rome and in its heartland Italy. It argues that emperor worship was indeed perfectly in keeping with Roman religious tradition, which has been generally misunderstood by a posterity imbued with radically different notions of the relationship between humans and the divine.

Author : Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191015045

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From Jupiter to Christ by Jörg Rüpke Pdf

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.

Author : Elena Muñiz Grijalvo,Juan Manuel Cortés Copete,Fernando Lozano Gomez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004347113

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Empire and Religion by Elena Muñiz Grijalvo,Juan Manuel Cortés Copete,Fernando Lozano Gomez Pdf

Empire and religion reflects on the nature of religious change in the Greek cities under Roman rule. The fascinating and fluid process of religious transformation is interpreted in this book in line with the logics of empire.

Author : Lukas de Blois,Peter Funke,Johannes Hahn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047411345

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The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire by Lukas de Blois,Peter Funke,Johannes Hahn Pdf

This volume presents the proceedings of the fifth workshop of the international thematic network ‚Impact of Empire’, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C. - A.D. 476, and, under the chairmanship of Lukas de Blois and Olivier Hekster (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands), brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists on Roman law from some 28 European and North American universities. The fifth volume focuses on the impact of imperial Rome on religions, ritual and religious life in the Roman Empire. The following topics are treated: connections between Roman expansion and religion, the imperial impact on local cults, cultic personnel (priests, priestesses and bishops), and the divinity of Roman Emperors.

Author : Revd Allen Brent
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004313125

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The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order by Revd Allen Brent Pdf

Recent studies have re-assessed Emperor worship as a genuinely religious response to the metaphysics of social order. Brent argues that Augustus' revolution represented a genuinely religious reformation of Republican religion that had failed in its metaphysical objectives. Against this backcloth, Luke, John the Seer, Clement, Ignatius and the Apologists refashioned Christian theology as an alternative answer to that metaphysical failure. Callistus and Pseudo-Hippolytus gave different responses to Severan images of imperial power. The early, Monarchian theology of the Trinity was thus to become a reflection of imperial culture and its justification that was later to be articulated both in Neo-Platonism, and in Cyprian's view of episcopal Order. Contra-cultural theory is employed as a sociological model to examine the interaction between developing Pagan and Christian social order.