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
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