Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice PDF
Edited by Sandra Blakely
Part of the Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religions series
Description
Conversations about materiality have helped forge a common meeting ground for scholars seeking to integrate images, sites, texts and implements in their approach to religion in the ancient Mediterranean.
The thirteen chapters in this volume explore the productivity of these approaches, with case studies from Israel, Athens, Rome, Sicily and North Africa.
The results foreground the capacity of material approaches to cast light on the cultural creation of the sacred through the integration of rhetorical, material, and iconographic means.
They open more nuanced pathways to the uses of text in the study of material evidence.
They highlight the potential for material objects to bring political and ethnic boundaries into the sacred realm. And they emphasize the role of ongoing interpretation, debate, and multiple readings in the creation of the sacred, in both ancient contexts and scholarly discussion.
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:350 pages
- Publisher:Lockwood Press
- Publication Date:01/07/2017
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- ISBN:9781937040802
