Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World | Free Book
Martin Bommas (ed.), Juliette Harrisson (ed.), Phoebe Roy (ed.)
Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World brings together
scholars and researchers working on memory and religion in ancient
urban environments. Chapters explore topics relating to religious
traditions and memory, and the multifunctional roles of architectural
and geographical sites, mythical figures and events, literary works
and artefacts. Pagan religions were often less static and more open to
new influences than previously understood. One of the factors that
shape religion is how fundamental elements are remembered as valuable
and therefore preservable for future generations. Memory, therefore,
plays a pivotal role when - as seen in ancient Rome during late
antiquity - a shift of religions takes place within communities. The
significance of memory in ancient societies and how it was promoted,
prompted, contested and even destroyed is discussed in detail.
This volume, the first of its kind, not only addresses the main cultures of the ancient world - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome - but also look at urban religious culture and funerary belief, and how concepts of ethnic religion were adapted in new religious environments.
This volume, the first of its kind, not only addresses the main cultures of the ancient world - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome - but also look at urban religious culture and funerary belief, and how concepts of ethnic religion were adapted in new religious environments.
About the Author
Martin Bommas is senior lecturer in Egyptology at the Institute
of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham, UK. He
was a research associate of Professor Jan Assmann at the University of
Heidelberg, Germany, until 2000, and has published five monographs on
ancient Egyptian rituals, religious texts, and memory.
Juliette Harrisson
is an external lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK and an
associate lecturer with the Open University, UK. Her chief research
interest lies in ancient myth and religion in the Roman Empire,
studied through the theoretical framework of cultural memory.
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