{"product_id":"on-roman-religion-lived-religion-and-the-individual-in-ancient-rome-paperback-softback-9781501735110","title":"On Roman Religion; Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501735110","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn Roman Religion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJörg Rüpke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501735110\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e210 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 10 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the contemporary methodology of 'lived religion,' Rüpke examines a variety of texts, practices, and religious artifacts to discover how Romans individualized their religion. He persuasively demonstrates that religious individuality can be seen in domestic cults, public sanctuaries, and personal visionary experiences.... This is a groundbreaking study by a leading historian of Roman religion. \u003cb\u003eSumming Up:\u003c\/b\u003e Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eA lucid, thought-provoking, and highly persuasive attempt to access 'lived ancient religion.'... The book as a whole is enormously fertile, and really is essential reading for anyone interested in 'Roman religion.'\u003c\/p\u003e (Reading Religion) \u003cp\u003eProvocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e (Religious Studies Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• \u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression?\u003c\/b\u003e 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 with individual appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying, dedicating, making vows, and reading. \u003ci\u003eOn Roman Religion\u003c\/i\u003e definitively dismantles previous approaches that depicted religious practice as uniform and static. Juxtaposing very different, strategic, and even subversive forms of individuality with traditions, their normative claims, and their institutional protections, RÜpke highlights the dynamic character of Rome’s religious institutions and traditions.\u003cbr\u003e In RÜpke’s view, lived ancient religion is as much about variations or even outright deviance as it is about attempts and failures to establish or change rules and roles and to communicate them via priesthoods, practices related to images or classified as magic, and literary practices. RÜpke analyzes observations of religious experience by contemporary authors including Propertius, Ovid, and the author of the \"Shepherd of Hermas.\" These authors, in very different ways, reflect on individual appropriation of religion among their contemporaries, and they offer these reflections to their readership or audiences. RÜpke also concentrates on the ways in which literary texts and inscriptions informed the practice of rituals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523205165336,"sku":"9781501735110","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-roman-religion-lived-religion-and-the-individual-in-ancient-rome-paperback-softback-9781501735110","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}