Travel and religion in antiquity
Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping are...
| Summary: | Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation. With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus. Cover -- Contents -- Map: The Ancient Mediterranean -- Preface -- I: Pausing at the Intersection of Religion and Travel -- HONOURING THE GODS -- II: Religion on the Road in Ancient Greece and Rome -- III: Going Up to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage, Purity, the Historical Jesus -- IV: Pilgrimage, Place, and Meaning Making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt -- V: Have Horn, Will Travel: The Journeys of Mesopotamian Deities -- PROMOTING A DEITY OR WAY OF LIFE -- VI: The Divine Wanderer: Travel and Divinization in Late Antiquity -- VII: Journeys in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Thessalos and Other Seekers -- VIII: "Danger in the wilderness, danger at sea": Paul and the Perils of Travel -- ENCOUNTERING FOREIGN CULTURES -- IX: Roman Translation: Tacitus and Ethnographic Interpretation -- MIGRATING -- X: Migration and the Emergence of Greco-Roman Diaspora Judaism -- MAKING A LIVING -- XI: Religion and the Nomadic Lifestyle: The Nabateans -- XII: Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus -- Works Cited. |
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| Item Description: | "Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-289) |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xii, 289 p), ill., map |
| ISBN: | 1-282-16691-3 978-1-282-16691-2 978-1-55458-240-2 |
