Thursday 3 November 2016

Jörg Rüpke presented a working paper on 'Gelebte Religion und gebotene Religion: Überlegungen zu Transformationen im römischen Reich'

The Roman Empire covers a period in which religious transformation shaped the history of religion in late antiquity of the Mediterranean basin, Europe and Western Asia. Despite and perhaps particularly because of the many details which are left to us from this epoch, it is a big challenge to create models of description for this period of transformation. This working paper takes as its outset two anithetical sides. On the one side it starts from a lived ancient religion perspective, in which individual adaptation of religious traditions and the resulting dynamics are looked at, so that group formation are only seen as ensuing follow ups. On the other hand the big political area of the Empire is interpreted as the structural framework in which new norms of religious activities are formed.

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