Were there Religious Associations in Antiquity?
Despite recent challenges to the category of 'religious' or 'cultic' associations, the categorization of private associations as 'occupational', 'cultic', 'neighbourhood', 'diasporic' and 'domestic' remain useful heuristic categor...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
Year: 2024, Volume: 100, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 435-462 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Classical antiquity
/ Association
/ Religion
/ Cult
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BE Greco-Roman religions TB Antiquity |
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| Summary: | Despite recent challenges to the category of 'religious' or 'cultic' associations, the categorization of private associations as 'occupational', 'cultic', 'neighbourhood', 'diasporic' and 'domestic' remain useful heuristic categories whose utility can be defended by examining the particular ways that sociality in associations was materialized, whether through cultic, convivial, or other means. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1423 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/ETL.100.3.3293821 |