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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 January 2019
      17 January 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108553674
      9781108428859
      9781108451130
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108553674
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 220 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (254 x 178 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 226 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Archaeology, Archaeology, Classical Art and Architecture
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    In this book, Claudia Moser offers a new understanding of Roman religion in the Republican era through an exploration of sacrifice, its principal ritual. Examining the long-term imprint of sacrificial practices on the material world, she focuses on monumental altars as the site for the act of sacrifice. Piecing together the fragments of the complex kaleidoscope of Roman religious practices, she shows how they fit together in ways that shed new light on the characteristic diversity of Roman religion. This study reorients the study of sacrificial practice in three principal ways: first, by establishing the primacy of sacred architecture, rather than individual action, in determining religious authority; second, by viewing religious activities as haptic, structured experiences in the material world rather than as expressions of doctrinal, belief-based mentalities; and third, by considering Roman sacrifice as a local, site-specific ritual rather than as a single, monolithic practice.

    Reviews

    ‘Since the 1990s, it has become conventional to emphasize the ‘locative’ character of Roman Republican religion; readers of this book will discover how local it really was.’

    Duncan E. MacRae Source: Religious Studies Review

    ‘This volume demonstrates the product of mature scholarship richly informed by the best research and masterfully produced in communicating what the reader needs to know about the Gospel of Matthew…’

    Daniel M. Gurtner Source: Religious Studies Review

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