Resumen del libro

Ritualisation is the most prominent form of religious action in Mediterranean antiquity and beyond. In order to communicate with the divine (and thus constituting its reality and shape) certain gestures, sequences of actions and words are differentiated from ordinary, pragmatic action, ritualised and even “sacralised” – by individuals as well as smaller or larger groups. Such patterns of action are repeated or taken as a blueprint for modification and innovation. They are the field for the establishment or questioning of religious authority, they are the means to temporarily or permanently mark out spaces as special. They sacralise not only spaces, but also times and natural or artificial material things, animals and people – and are drawing on such sacralised elements to determine, and elaborate on, the status of an action. Research on ancient rituals has taken many different directions. They have been seen as the continuation of pre-human patterns of action or inventions of cunning religious specialists. Fruitful analyses have inquired about the “meaning” of such rituals as described by and ascribed to different groups of participants or individual observers. Others have stressed the aesthetics and patterns and the non-verbal logic of such actions. They have been seen as the dramatisation of traditional narratives or prescribed norms, shared values and conceptions of time of place. Plausibly, they could be analysed as incorporating and affirming social hierarchies or as the results of the individual framing of situations.

MONOGRÁFICO

Rituals and Habitus in the Ancient World. An Introduction Elisabeth Begemann, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke, Wolfgang Spickermann & Katharina Waldner

Establishing Self-World Relations in Socio-Religious Practices. Looking at Roman Religious Communication Jörg Rüpke

The Spectrum of Religiousness, or What Makes an Object Religious. Habits, Patterned Evidence and Religious Meanings of Image-Objects in Pompeii Anna-Katharina Rieger

Children’s Supplication in Classical Athens. Religious Skills, Survival and Inferiority Fayah Haussker

The Rhythm of the Gods’ Voice. The Suggestion of Divine Presence through Prosody Ronald Blankenborg

How to Write Religious Ritual into Theatre. Gérard Genette’s Palimpsests Applied in Plautus’ Rudens and Simone Weil’s Venise Sauvée Blaž Ploj & Thomas Sojer

The Many Martins of Venantius Fortunatus. Venantius Fortunatus’ Martin-Poems as Instances of Individual Appropriation and Literary Offers of Ritual-Like Experience Enno Friedrich & Ursula Gärtner

The Thesean Ritual Landscape. Appropriation, Identity and Athenian Collective Memories Ben S. Cassell

Rural Rites in Ovid’s Fasti Maria Hirt

Magischer Krankenheiler und Sohn Gottes. Die jesuanische Krankenheilung als magisches Ritual und das Phänomen der De-Ritualisierung in der redaktionellen Überlieferung der Evangelien Annika Krahn

The Ν?σος of Declaring that Gods do not Exist in Plato’s Laws Isolated Cases or Groups of ?θεοι? Ramón Soneira Martínez

VARIA

Ritualistic Nudity. Dressing and Undressing in Ovid’s Fasti Tammy Di-Giusto

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Citación Chicago
VV.AA. ARYS. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades. Número 18. Rituals and habitus in the ancient world. Elisabeth Begemann, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke, Wolfgang Spickermann & Katharina Waldner. 1ª ed. Madrid: Asociación ARYS, 2020.

Citación APA
VV.AA. (2020). ARYS. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades. Número 18. Rituals and habitus in the ancient world. Elisabeth Begemann, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke, Wolfgang Spickermann & Katharina Waldner. Asociación ARYS.