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- ISBN 9783034344562
- Weight: 601g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This volume aims at analysing how self-experience of religious communication becomes a reflexive phenomenon reproduced in time and space to constitute a collectively shared narrative. The issues addressed in this volume investigate how individual, creative micro-strategies of communication with the gods became established patterns of behaviour, to what extent individual behaviour was mediated by cultural constraints, or why individual biographies of divine experience became exempla and identity markers.
The different chapters of this volume explore human-divine communication through three different study-cases: linguistic communication and, specially, the role and processes of construction of divine epithets; the use of the body as a tool for communication with the supernatural; and the role of objects in the human-divine communicative act.
Antón Alvar Nuño is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Málaga (Spain). He has specialized in the study of ancient magic and religion from a bottom-up perspective.
Clelia Martínez Maza is full professor of Ancient History at University of Málaga. Her main research lines are: Religions in Late Antiquity with a particular interest in the relationship between Christianity and pre-Christian religions, Christianization of the Roman Empire, and Women’s Religious Life in Antiquity. She has published more than 100 publications in national and international publishers of recognized impact.
Jaime Alvar Ezquerra is Professor of Ancient History, specialized on Roman Polytheism. He is corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia and of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
