Reviving Roman Religion - Sacred Trees in the Roman World

Informationen zum Autor Ailsa Hunt is Isaac Newton Research Fellow in Classics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Klappentext Argues that thinking about sacred trees in Roman culture forces us to rethink how we understand Roman religion. Zusammenfassung This book argues that thinking about sacred trees in the Roman world forces us to rethink how we understand Roman religion! in particular challenging current scholarly constructions of what sacrality means in Roman culture! and revealing what is lost when when we write the environment out of our understanding of Roman religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Rooting in: why give time to sacred trees?; 2. A brief history of tree-thinking: the enduring power of animism; 3. How arboreal matter matters: rethinking sacrality through trees; 4. Arboriculture and arboreal deaths: rethinking sacrality again; 5. Confronting arboreal agency: reading the Divine in arboreal behaviour; 6. Imagining the gods: how trees flesh out the identity of the Divine; 7. Branching out: what sacred trees mean for Roman religion.

Product details

• Authors: Ailsa Hunt, Ailsa (Newnham College Hunt, Hunt Ailsa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107153547
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15354-7
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, History of Religion, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE