• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Sanctuaries and Experience: Knowledge, Practice and Space in the Ancient World

Sanctuaries and Experience: Knowledge, Practice and Space in the Ancient World

Paperback

Series: Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage, Book 83

Religion General ArchaeologyAncient History General

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 3515133992
ISBN13: 9783515133999
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 474
Weight: 2.43
Language: English
Ancient religion is traditionally understood in terms of myths, rituals and institutions, as transmitted in ancient texts. The studies gathered here focus instead on the lived experience of ancient cult and the places in which that experience was formed. They build on recent explorations of Lived Ancient Religion and also on new approaches to Material Ancient Religion. All ancient societies constructed elaborate sanctuaries. Their architecture and the collective rituals that took place there shaped collective experiences. Through case studies drawn from Ancient Egypt, the Greek World and the Roman Empire these themes are explored and elaborated. Together they indicate new ways of approaching ancient religious experience, collective and individual.

Also from

Woolf, Greg

Also in

Ancient History General