Beyond priesthood
religious entrepreneurs and innovators in the Roman Empire
Gordon, R. L. (Richard Lindsay),
editor
Petridou, Georgia,
editor
Rüpke, Jörg,
editor
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bibliography
conference publication
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gw
2017
monographic
Berlin :
De Gruyter,
publisher
[2017]
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1 electronic resource (xiii, 460 pages )
This volume questions the established modern scholarly categories of priests and priesthood and focusses on processes of appropriation and contestation of religious expertise in the Imperial Era. It offers a unique insight into ancient religious specialists, their dynamic interaction with established religious authorities and institutions, and their contributions to religious innovation in the ancient Mediterranean world.
Part I: Innovation: Forms and Limits -- Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome / Jörg Rüpke and Federico Santangelo -- Lucian on Peregrinus and Alexander of Abonuteichos: A sceptical view of two religious entrepreneurs / Jan N. Bremmer -- Lived Religion among second-century 'Gnostic hieratic specialists' / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- On and beyond duty: Christian clergy at Oxyrhynchus (c. 250-400) / AnneMarie Luijendijk -- Part II: The Author as Religious Entrepreneur -- Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo's representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides / Angela Standhartinger -- A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus / Annette Weissenrieder -- Contesting religious and medical expertise: The therapeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical entrepreneurs / Georgia Petridou -- Christians, the 'more obvious' representatives of the religion of Israel than the rabbis? / Markus Vinzent -- Rhetorical indications of the poet's craft in the ancient synagogue / Michael D. Swartz -- Part III: Filling in the Blanks -- In search of the 'beggar-priest' / Esther Eidinow -- Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groups in the Roman Empire / Richard Gordon -- Enforcing priesthood. The struggle for the monopolisation of religious goods and the construction of the Christian religious field / Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli -- Part IV: 'Written on the Body' -- Tertium genus? Representations of religious practitioners in the cult of Magna Mater / Anja Klöckner -- Negotiating the body: Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius Mundus and the priests of Anubis / Valentino Gasparini -- 'You can leave your hat on.' Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status / Rubina Raja
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edited by Richard L. Gordon, Georgia Petridou, and Jörg Rüpke.
International conference proceedings.
"Almost all the chapters included in this volume were delivered in one form or other at an international conference entitled 'Beyond duty : interacting with religious professionals and appropriating tradition in the Imperial Era' held in Erfurt at the Augustinerkloster, 14-16 January 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Church history
Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Priests
Rome
Rome
Religious life and customs
BL25
200.937
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Beyond priesthood
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