Raja R., Rüpke J. (eds). A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World

Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 502 pp. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4443-5000-5.A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world.
• Features readings that focus on religious experience and expression in the ancient world rather than solely on religious belief
• Places a strong emphasis on domestic and individual religious practice
• Represents the first time that the concept of "lived religion" is applied to the ancient history of religion and archaeology of religion
• Includes cutting-edge data taken from top contemporary researchers and theorists in the field
• Examines a large variety of themes and religious traditions across a wide geographical area and chronological span
• Written to appeal equally to archaeologists and historians of religionArchaeology of Religion, Material Religion, and the Ancient World (Rubina Raja and Jörg Rüpke).
Archaeology of Ritual.
The Archaeology of Ancient Sanctuaries (William Van Andringa).
Ritual Activities, Processions and Pilgrimages (Thierry Luginbühl).
Perpetuated Action (Lara Weiss).
Public and Private (Robert Parker).
Embodiment.
Amulets (Gideon Bohak).
Dress and Ornaments (Laura Gawlinski).
Dance (Frederick Naerebout).
Gendered Agents and Embodied Religious Experience (Zsuzsanna Várhelyi).
Experiences.
Polychromy and Jewish Visual Culture of Roman Antiquity (Steven Fine).
Watching Rituals (Valérie Huet).
Killing and Preparing Animals (Patrice Méniel).
Communal Dining: Making Things Happen (Marleen Martens).
WATER (Olivier de Cazanove).
Temporary Deprivation: Rules and Meanings (Richard Gordon).
Creating spaces of experiences.
At Home (Kimberly Bowes).
Gardens (Richard Neudecker).
Religion and Tomb (Henner von Hesberg, Christiane Nowak and Ellen Thiermann).
Designing and Appropriating Sacred Space.
Archaeology of Christian Initiation (Robin M. Jensen).
Oracular Shrines as Places of Religious Experience (Julia Kindt).
Buildings of Religious Communities (Inge Nielsen).
Sanctuaries and Urban Spatial Settings in Roman Imperial Ostia (Marlis Arnhold).
Sharing Public Space.
Complex Sanctuaries in the Roman Period (Rubina Raja).
Temples and Temple Interiors (Henner von Hesberg).
Theater (Susanne Gödde).
The Archaeology of Processions (Eftychia Stavrianopoulou).
Urbanization and Memory (Christopher Smith).
Expressiveness.
Images (Sylvia Estienne).
Instruments and Vessels (Anne Viola Siebert).
Anatomical ex votos (Günther Schörner).
Monumental Inscriptions (Wolfgang Spickermann).
Agents.
Material Culture and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity (Eric Rebillard).
Individual Choices and Individuality in the Archaeology of Ancient Religion (Jörg Rüpke).
Material Culture and Imagined Communities in the Roman World (Eva Mol and Miguel John Versluys).
Transformations.
Ritual Traditions of Non‐Mediterranean Europe (Greg Woolf).
Tracing Religious Change in Roman Africa (Valentino Gasparini).