A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World

Content: Notes on Contributors viii    Abbreviations xii    1 Archaeology of Religion, Material Religion, and the Ancient World 1 Rubina Raja and Jorg Rupke    Part I Archaeology of Ritual 27    2 The Archaeology of Ancient Sanctuaries 29 William Van Andringa    3 Ritual Activities, Processions and Pilgrimages 41 Thierry Luginbuhl    4 Perpetuated Action 60 Lara Weiss    5 Public and Private 71 Robert Parker    Part II Embodiment 81    6 Amulets 83 Gideon Bohak    7 Dress and Ornaments 96 Laura Gawlinski    8 Dance 107 Frederick Naerebout    9 Gendered Agents and Embodied Religious Experience 120 Zsuzsanna Varhelyi    Part III Experiences 131    10 Polychromy and Jewish Visual Culture of Roman Antiquity 133 Steven Fine    11 Watching Rituals 144 Valerie Huet    12 Killing and Preparing Animals 155 Patrice Meniel    13 Communal Dining: Making Things Happen 167 Marleen Martens    14 WATER 181 Olivier de Cazanove    15 Temporary Deprivation: Rules and Meanings 194 Richard Gordon    Part IV Creating spaces of experiences 207    16 At Home 209 Kimberly Bowes    17 Gardens 220 Richard Neudecker    18 Religion and Tomb 235 Henner von Hesberg, Christiane Nowak and Ellen Thiermann    Part V Designing and Appropriating Sacred Space 251    19 Archaeology of Christian Initiation 253 Robin M. Jensen    20 Oracular Shrines as Places of Religious Experience 268 Julia Kindt    21 Buildings of Religious Communities 279 Inge Nielsen    22 Sanctuaries and Urban Spatial Settings in Roman Imperial Ostia 293 Marlis Arnhold    Part VI Sharing Public Space 305    23 Complex Sanctuaries in the Roman Period 307 Rubina Raja    24 Temples and Temple Interiors 320 Henner von Hesberg    25 Theater 333 Susanne Godde    26 The Archaeology of Processions 349 Eftychia Stavrianopoulou    27 Urbanization and Memory 362 Christopher Smith    Part VII Expressiveness 377    28 Images 379 Sylvia Estienne    29 Instruments and Vessels 388 Anne Viola Siebert    30 Anatomical ex votos 397 Gunther Schorner    31 Monumental Inscriptions 412 Wolfgang Spickermann    Part VIII Agents 425    32 Material Culture and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity 427 Eric Rebillard    33 Individual Choices and Individuality in the Archaeology of Ancient Religion 437 Jorg Rupke    34 Material Culture and Imagined Communities in the Roman World 451 Eva Mol and Miguel John Versluys    Part IX Transformations 463    35 Ritual Traditions of Non  ]Mediterranean Europe 465 Greg Woolf    36 Tracing Religious Change in Roman Africa 478 Valentino Gasparini    Index 489