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Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World : Approaching Religious Transformations From Archaeology, History and Classics
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Abstract: The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The r...
A Community Empowerment Approach to Heritage Management : From Values Assessment to Local Engagement
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: This book presents an innovative approach to public archaeology in a rural community, which has had powerful results in terms of empowering a village community in Crete to become long-term guardians of their cultural heritage. Highlighting the theoreti...
The Walking Dead at Saqqara : Strategies of Social and Religious Interaction in Practice
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Funerary rituals and the cult of the dead are classics of research in religious studies, especially for ancient Egypt. Still, we know relatively little about how people interacted in daily life at the city of Memphis and its Saqqara necropolis in the l...
Time for the Ancients : Measurement, Theory, Experience
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: The book presents the author's latest research on ancient perceptions of time; it centres on medical discussions, especially of the doctor-philosopher Galen, while also contextualizing his work within Graeco-Roman evidence and discussions – archaeologi...
Urban Religion in Late Antiquity
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Abstract: Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with “lived religion” in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion...
Was vom Himmel kommt : Stoffanalytische Zugänge zu antiken Mythen aus Mesopotamien, Ägypten, Griechenland und Rom
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: In antiken Mythen ist der Himmel nicht nur ein kosmischer, sondern vor allem ein numinoser Raum. Was von dort kommt, besitzt herausragende Bedeutung. Der vom Collegium Mythologicum vorgelegte transdisziplinäre Band erforscht mythische Stoffe, die in an...
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods ma...
Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance : Local Experiences of a Global Concept
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance. Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws on original case studies fro...
Will the Real Charles Darwin Please Stand Up?
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): America. Mar2022, Vol. 226 Issue 3, p52-55. 4p. 1 Color Photograph.
Abstract: The article explores a book that among other things established that the age of the earth was significantly greater than the 6,000-year span allotted by traditional biblical historians. William Wheel, an English historian, scientist and ordained Anglic...
Initiation Into the Mysteries of the Ancient World
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of ...