Rüpke, Jörg,

On Roman religion : lived religion and the individual in ancient Rome / Jörg Rüpke. - London : Cornell University Press, (c)2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015). - 1 online resource. - Townsend lectures/Cornell studies in classical philology .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Individual appropriation of religion -- Individual decision and differences of social order in late republican Roman priesthoods -- Appropriating images embodying gods -- Testing the limits of ritual choices -- Reconstructing religious experience -- Dynamics of individual appropriation -- Religious communication -- Instructing literary practice in the Shepherd of Hermas.



9781501706264


Experience (Religion)--History.
Religion--Social aspects--Rome.


Electronic Books.

BL803 / .O576 2016