Title: Entangled worlds: religious confluences between East and West in the Roman Empire :
Authors: Nagel, Svenja,; Quack, Joachim Friedrich,; Witschel, Christian,
Date: 2017
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck,
Physical description: x, 470 pages, 85, 7 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: Introduction : religious confluences in the Roman empire; or : why 'oriental cults' again? / Joachim Friedrich Quack and Christian Witschel -- I. The concepts of 'oriental cults' in recent debates -- The 'Romanization' of 'oriental cults' / Jaime Alvar -- Osiris mystes und Isis orgia -- Gab es 'mysterien' der ägyptischen gottheiten? / Julietta Steinhauer -- II. Orgins and diffusion of 'oriental cults' within the imperium Romanum : the case of Jupiter Dolichenus -- The cult of Jupiter Dolichenus and its origins. The sanctuary at Dülük Baba Tepesi near Doliche / Engelbert Winter -- The cult of Jupiter Dolichenus in the east / Michael Blömer -- Jupiter Optimus Maximus Dolichenus and the re-imagination of the empire : religious dynamics, social integration, and imperial narratives / Mihály Loránd Dészpa -- III. Expanding from Egypt into globality : the case of Isis and Osiris -- The hymns of Isidorus at Medine Madi : global currents in local context / Ian S. Moyer --^ One for all and all for one? Isis as una quae es(t) omnia in the Egyptian temples of the Graeco-Roman period / Svenja Nagel -- New light on the universality of Isis (pVienna D. 6297+6329+10101) / Martin Andreas Stadler -- Resting in pieces and integrating the oikoumene. On the mental expansion of the religious landscape by means of the body parts of Osiris / Joachim Friedrich Quack -- IV. The visual conceptualization of 'oriental gods' -- Egypt as part of the Roman koine : mnemohistory and the iseum campense in Rome / Miguel John Versluys -- Mithräische bilderwelten. Eine untersuchung zu ausgewählten ikonographischen elementen im römischen mithraskult / Darius Frackowiak -- Zwischen orient and okzident. Bilder des Jupiter Dolichenus und der juno regina aus dem osten und westen des römischen reiches / Ralf Krumeich -- V. Changing forms of sacred space, sanctuaries and rituals -- An audience in search of a theatre --^ the staging of the divine in the sanctuaries of Graeco-Egyptian gods / Kathrin Kleibl -- Exploring walls : on sacred space in the Pompeian Iseum / Florence Saragoza -- Templa et spelaea mithrae. Unity and diversity in the topography, architecture and design of sanctuaries in the cult of mithras / Andreas Hensen -- From east to west : staging religious experience in the mithraic temple / Richard Gordan.
Notes: Proceedings from an international conference held at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg in November 2009. 14 English, 3 German contributions.
Subject headings (LCSH): Isis (Egyptian deity)--Cult--Congresses.; Jupiter Dolichenus (Roman deity)--Cult--Congresses.; Mithras (Zoroastrian deity)--Cult--Congresses.; Rome--Religion--History--Congresses.