Religious Networks in the Roman Empire

The Spread of New Ideas

Anna Collar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

334 Seiten

2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-65504-1 (ISBN)

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This innovative study applies cutting-edge network methodology to ancient religious data, and uses it to demonstrate that the spread of religious movements in the Roman Empire was the result of social networks, rather than 'inevitable progress'. An essential resource for students and scholars of ancient history, archaeology and religious studies.

The first three centuries AD saw the spread of new religious ideas through the Roman Empire, crossing a vast and diverse geographical, social and cultural space. In this innovative study, Anna Collar explores both how this happened and why. Drawing on research in the sociology and anthropology of religion, physics and computer science, Collar explores the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to explore why some religious movements succeed, while others, seemingly equally successful at a certain time, ultimately fail. Using extensive epigraphic data, Collar provides new interpretations of the diffusion of ideas across the social networks of the Jewish Diaspora and the cults of Jupiter Dolichenus and Theos Hypsistos, and in turn offers important reappraisals of the spread of religious innovations in the Roman Empire. This study will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of ancient history, archaeology, ancient religion and network theory.

Anna Collar is a Fellow of the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge and has published articles in the Mediterranean Historical Review, Asia Minor Studien, Iuppiter Dolichenus (Habelt), and Network Analysis and Archaeology.

Introduction; 1. The network approach; 2. Networks and religion in the Roman world; 3. Jupiter Dolichenus: military networks on the edges of empire; 4. The Jewish Diaspora in the West: the rabbinic reforms, ethnicity and the (re?)activation of Jewish identity; 5. Theos Hypsistos: God-fearers, the rabbinic reforms, the fiscus Judaicus and the redefinition of the Jewish-gentile relationship; 6. Religion and social networks in archaeology and ancient history: conclusions.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2017
Zusatzinfo	21 Maps; 2 Halftones, unspecified; 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 230 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-107-65504-8 / 1107655048
ISBN-13	978-1-107-65504-1 / 9781107655041
Zustand	Neuware