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J�rg R�pke
Oxford University Press, USA

From Jupiter to Christ: On the History of Religion in the Roman Imperial Period

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AuthorJ�rg R�pke
PublisherOxford University Press, USA
PublishedNov 09 2015
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139780198703723
Dimensions8.6 X 5.6 X 1.1 inches
Weight 1.15 pounds
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CategoriesHistory > Ancient - Rome
LanguageEnglish

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The history of Roman imperial religion is of fundamental importance to the history of religion in Europe. Emerging from a decade of research, From Jupiter to Christ demonstrates that the decisive change within the Roman imperial period was not a growing number of religions or changes in their ranking and success, but a modification of the idea of religion and a change in the social place of religious practices and beliefs. Religion is shown to be transformed from a medium serving the individual necessities -- dealing with human contingencies like sickness, insecurity, and death -- and a medium serving the public formation of political identity, into an encompassing system of ways of life, group identities, and political legitimation.

Instead of offering an encyclopaedic presentation of religious beliefs, symbols, and practices throughout the period, the volume thematically presents the media that manifested and diffused religion (institutions, texts, and law), and analyses representative cases. It asks how religion changed in processes of diffusion and immigration, how fast (or how slow) practices and institutions were appropriated and modified, and reveals how these changes made Roman religion 'exportable', creating those forms of intellectualisation and enscripturation which made religion an autonomous area, different from other social fields.

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Jörg Rüpke is vice-director and permanent fellow in religious studies at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany, and has been a visiting professor at the Collège de France, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. His many books include On Roman Religion and From Jupiter to Christ.

In January 2012, Rüpke was appointed by German Federal President Christian Wulff to the German Council of Science and Humanities.

Source: Princeton University Press

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