Διεθνές Συνέδριο: Sacra privata. From pagan religiosity to early Christian domestic cult / International Conf.: Sacra privata. From pagan religiosity to early Christian domestic cult

Sacra privata. From pagan religiosity to early Christian domestic cult

21-21 Μαΐου 2015

Πανεπιστήμιο της Βιέννης

The three-day international conference brings together scholars from different scientific fields comprising New Testament Studies, Christian Archaeology, Ancient History of Religion and Church History. By analyzing archaeological and literary sources the lectures will discuss the phenomenon of domestic religion from various perspectives reaching from the Egyptian, Hellenistic and Roman time to early Christianity.

Πρόγραμμα / Programme

Thursday, 21 May 2015

14.00–14.15:     Opening Session

14.15–15.00:     Edward Adams | King's College, London

Sacra privata and early Christian meeting places

15.00–15.30:     Coffee Break

15.30–16.15:     Christoph Auffarth | University of Bremen

Nach dem Opfer. Transformation von Religion in der Spätantike: Religion in der Familie

16.15–17.00:     Andreas Bendlin | University of Toronto

Religious Agency in the Household: The Praxeology of Domestic Cult in Roman Italy

17.00–17.45:     Verena Fugger | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Norbert Zimmermann | German Archaeological Institute Rome

Archaeological evidences and new questions concerning early Christian domestic cult

18.30–20.45:     Reception and guided tour through the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the KHM (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

      Registration required!

Friday, 22 May 2015

9.00–9.45:        John Bodel | Brown University, Providence

Household religion and religions of the house: The spiritual lives of Roman slaves

9.45–10.30:       David Frankfurter | University of Boston

The Spaces of Domestic Religion in Late Antique Egypt

10.30–11.00:     Coffee Break

11.00–11.45:     Marco Frenschkowski | University of Leipzig

Persönliche und innerfamiliäre religiöse Praxis in apokryphen Apostelakten

11.45–12.30:     Sible De Blaauw | University Nijmegen

The Early History of the Roman Titular Churches: Archaeological Traces, Memories and Myths

12.30–14.00:     Lunch Break

14.00–14.45:     Katharina Greschat | University of Bochum

Oratorium nostrum. Gregory of Tours and his Construction of a Christian lararium

14.45–15.30:     Caroline Johnson-Hodge | College of the Holy Cross, Worcester

Through the Back Door: Christianity as Household Cult

15.30–16.00:     Coffee Break

16.00–16.45:     Ulrich Volp | University of Mainz

Domestic Religion and Family Duties: Insights from the Fathers and Cultural Anthropology

Saturday, 23 May 2015

9.00–9.45:         Andrew McGowan | Yale University, New Haven

Carcer autem pulcher: Christian ritual, gender, and space

9.45–10.30:       Andreas Müller | University of Kiel  

                        Der Kult in der Zelle. Häusliche Religiosität im spätantiken Mönchtum

10.30–11.00:     Coffee Break

11.00–11.45:     Andreas Pülz | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Schobert | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Architectural decoration with Christian Symbols in late antique/early Byzantine houses

11.45–12.30:     Judith Lieu | Cambridge University

Household and Family in Diaspora Judaism

12.30–14.00:     Lunch Break

14.00–14.45:     Margaret Y. MacDonald | St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish

Re-envisioning Ekklesia Space: Evidence of the Flexible use of Household Space for Religious Instruction and Practice in the Pastoral Epistles

14.45–15.30:     Günther Schörner | University of Vienna

Location of domestic rituals in the Roman Empire: an interprovincial comparison

15.30–15.45:     Closing Session

Abstracts