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Author : Gwynaeth McIntyre
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004398375
This article surveys the range of ancient literary sources and modern scholarly debates on how individuals became gods in the Roman world and the practices classified under the modern collective heading ‘imperial cult’.
Author : Steven J. Friesen,Louise Farmer Boyer Professor in Biblical Studies Steven J Friesen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195131536
After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the first study to examine both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical text in depth. Friesen argues that a detailed analysis of imperial cults as they were practiced in the first century CE in the region where John was active allows us to understand John's criticism of his society's dominant values. He demonstrates the importance of imperial cults for society at the time when Revelation was written, and shows the ways in which John refuted imperial cosmology through his use of vision, myth, and eschatological expectation.
Author : S. R. F. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 052131268X
Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman Emperor was treated like a god.
Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cults
ISBN : 9004125396
This volume analyzes the priesthood of the provincial cult in every province of the Latin West where evidence has survived in the period from Augustus down to the mid-third century. Particular attention is paid to the epigraphic record, notably the Testimony of honorific statues.
Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295964
This volume deals with the institution and evolution of imperial cult at the provincial level from the earliest foundations under Augustus down to the mid-third century A.D. On the basis of detailed examination of evidence from the different regions or provinces of the Latin west the emphasis of provincial cults can be seen to move first from the living emperor and Roma to the deified emperor, then from a composite cult of living and deified dead emperors to a renewed emphasis on the reigning emperor in the late second and early third centuries. Analysis is based primarily on the study of epigraphical, numismatic and iconographic evidence, generously illuminated by plates. The volume concludes with a series of essays summarizing the main lines of development in the light of various related issues.
Author : Kenneth Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Cults
ISBN : WISC:89044237964
Author : Steven J. Friesen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198030126
After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the first study to examine both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical text in depth. Friesen argues that a detailed analysis of imperial cults as they were practiced in the first century CE in the region where John was active allows us to understand John's criticism of his society's dominant values. He demonstrates the importance of imperial cults for society at the time when Revelation was written, and shows the ways in which John refuted imperial cosmology through his use of vision, myth, and eschatological expectation.
Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Emperor worship
ISBN : 9004091440
Author : Wei Hsien Wan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567684479
Wei Hsien Wan builds on the work of David Horrell and Travis Williams for his argument that the letter of 1 Peter engages in a subtle, calculated form of resistance to Rome, that has often gone undetected. Whilst previous discussion of the topic has remained largely focused on the letter's stance toward specific Roman institutions, such as the emperor, household structures, and the imperial cults, Wan takes the conversation beyond these confines and examines 1 Peter's critique of the Roman Empire in terms of its ideology or worldview. Using the work of James Scott to conceptualize ideological resistance against domination, Wan considers how the imperial cults of Anatolia and 1 Peter offered distinct constructions of time and space-that is, how they envisioned reality differently. Insofar as these differences led to divergent ways of conceiving the social order, they acquired political power and generated potential for conflict. Wan thus argues that 1 Peter confronts Rome on a cosmic scale with its alternative construal of time and space, and examines the evidence that the Petrine author consciously, if cautiously, interrogated the imperial imagination at its most foundational levels, and set forth in its place a theocentric, Christological understanding of the world.
Author : Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197666043
Imperial Cults is a comparative study of the transformation of imperial religion and imperial authority in the early Han and Roman empires. During the reigns of the Emperor Wu of Han and Octavian Augustus of Rome, the rulers undertook substantial reforms to their respective systems of cult, at a time when they were re-shaping the idea of imperial authority and consolidating their own power. The changes made to religious institutions during their reigns show how these reforms were a fundamental part of the imperial consolidation. Employing a comparative methodology the author discusses some of the common strategies employed by the two rulers in order to centre religious and political authority around themselves. Both rulers incorporated new men from outside of the established court elite to serve in their religious institutions and as advisors, thus weakening the authority of those who had traditionally held it. They both expanded the reach of their imperially-sponsored cult, and refashioned important ceremonies to demonstrate and communicate the unprecedented achievements of each ruler. Emperor Wu recruited experts in mantic knowledge from far reaches of the empire, while Augustus co-opted loyal followers into the newly revived priestly colleges. Robinson shows how the rulers used their respective religious institutions to consolidate their authority, secure support, and communicate their authority to the elite and commoners alike. By using the comparative approach, the author not only reveals similar trends in the formation of ancient empires, but also shows how new perspectives on familiar material can be found when engaging with other societies.
Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295766
Open worship of the Roman Emperor with sacrifice, priests, altar and temple was in theory contrary to official policy in Rome. The cult of the living emperor by less direct means, however, might be achieved in various ways: the offering of cult to his companion genius or the divine numen immanent within him; the elevation of the Imperial house to a level at which it became godlike; the formal placing of the emperor on a par with the gods by making dedications to him ut deo; the conversion of divinities of every kind into Augustan gods that served as the Emperor's helper and protector; the creation of Augustan Blessings and Virtues that personified the qualities and benefactions of the emperor. Volume II, 2 completes the preliminary set of studies with a select bibliography, indexes and corrigenda to Vols. I, 1-2 and II, 1.
Author : Revd Allen Brent
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004313125
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.
Author : Wei Hsien Wan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567684448
Wei Hsien Wan builds on the work of David Horrell and Travis Williams for his argument that the letter of 1 Peter engages in a subtle, calculated form of resistance to Rome, that has often gone undetected. Whilst previous discussion of the topic has remained largely focused on the letter's stance toward specific Roman institutions, such as the emperor, household structures, and the imperial cults, Wan takes the conversation beyond these confines and examines 1 Peter's critique of the Roman Empire in terms of its ideology or worldview. Using the work of James Scott to conceptualize ideological resistance against domination, Wan considers how the imperial cults of Anatolia and 1 Peter offered distinct constructions of time and space-that is, how they envisioned reality differently. Insofar as these differences led to divergent ways of conceiving the social order, they acquired political power and generated potential for conflict. Wan thus argues that 1 Peter confronts Rome on a cosmic scale with its alternative construal of time and space, and examines the evidence that the Petrine author consciously, if cautiously, interrogated the imperial imagination at its most foundational levels, and set forth in its place a theocentric, Christological understanding of the world.
Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295759
Preliminary material -- GENIUS AND NUMEN -- NUMINA AUGUSTORUM -- THE IMPERIAL NVMEN IN ROMAN BRITAIN -- DOMUS DIVINA -- AUGUSTO UT DEO -- AUGUSTAN GODS -- AUGUSTAN BLESSINGS AND VIRTUES -- LITURGY AND CEREMONIAL -- DATED INSCRIPTIONS AND THE FERIALE DURANUM -- THE AUGUSTALES AND THE IMPERIAL CULT -- ADDENDA TO VOLUME II, 1 -- LIST OF PLATES -- Plates LXXIV-CXIII.
Author : Louis Matthews Sweet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Cults
ISBN : UOM:39015010952177