Calling Upon Gods, Offering Bodies: Strategies of Human-Divine Communication in the Roman Empire from...

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D. Jaime Alvar Ezquerra Clelia Martínez Maza

Calling Upon Gods, Offering Bodies

Strategies of Human-Divine Communication in the Roman Empire from Individual Experience to Social...

D. Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, Clelia Martínez Maza, Antón Alvar Nuño

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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
27 June 2024

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Nature & existence of God; Christian life & practice; Education

This volume aims at analysing how self-experience of religious communication becomes a reflexive phenomenon reproduced in time and space to constitute a collectively shared narrative. The issues addressed in this volume investigate how individual, creative micro-strategies of communication with the gods became established patterns of behaviour, to what extent individual behaviour was mediated by cultural constraints, or why individual biographies of divine experience became exempla and identity markers.

The different chapters of this volume explore human-divine communication through three different study-cases: linguistic communication and, specially, the role and processes of construction of divine epithets; the use of the body as a tool for communication with the supernatural; and the role of objects in the human-divine communicative act.

Edited by: D. Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, Clelia Martínez Maza, Antón Alvar Nuño
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 601g
ISBN: 9783034344562
ISBN 10: 3034344562
Pages: 468
Publication Date: 27 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Antón Alvar Nuño is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Málaga (Spain). He has specialized in the study of ancient magic and religion from a bottom-up perspective. Clelia Martínez Maza is full professor of Ancient History at University of Málaga. Her main research lines are: Religions in Late Antiquity with a particular interest in the relationship between Christianity and pre-Christian religions, Christianization of the Roman Empire, and Women’s Religious Life in Antiquity. She has published more than 100 publications in national and international publishers of recognized impact. Jaime Alvar Ezquerra is Professor of Ancient History, specialized on Roman Polytheism. He is corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia and of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.