Travel and Religion in Antiquity
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Travel and Religion in Antiquity

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Travel and Religion in Antiquity

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Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation.

With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus.

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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781554582402
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology of Religion
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Map: The Ancient Mediterranean
  4. Preface
  5. I: Pausing at the Intersection of Religion and Travel
  6. HONOURING THE GODS
  7. PROMOTING A DEITY OR WAY OF LIFE
  8. ENCOUNTERING FOREIGN CULTURES
  9. MIGRATING
  10. MAKING A LIVING
  11. Works Cited