On Roman religion : lived religion and the individual in ancient Rome / Jörg Rüpke.

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"Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world's leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rüpke, Jörg (Author)
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Cornell studies in classical philology. Townsend lectures.
Subjects:
Religion > Social aspects > Rome.
Experience (Religion) > History.
Experience (Religion)
Religion.
Religion > Social aspects.
Rome > Religion.
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Individual appropriation of religion
  • Individual decision and social order
  • Appropriating images : embodying gods
  • Testing the limits of ritual choices
  • Reconstructing religious experience
  • Dynamics of individual appropriation
  • Religious communication
  • Instructing literary practice in The shepherd of Hermas
  • Conclusion.