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 Religion in the Roman Empire 11:3 (2025)

Activating Rituals (I): Materiality, Performativity, and Communication with the Superhuman

• Chiara Di Serio - Silvia Fogliazza - Sofia Bianchi Mancini, "Activating Rituals (I) : Materiality, Performativity, and Communication with the Superhuman," 277-290 (OA)
• Veronika Kolomaznik, "‘Revealing the Phallus’ : The Imagery of Dionysiac Mysteries on the Campana Reliefs," 291-317 (OA)
• Chiara Di Serio, "Ritual Practices Performed by the Prophetess Manto in the Greco-Roman Sources," 318-342 (OA)
• Luisa Mollweide, "Materiality and Communication: Rituals on Stage in Roman Comedies," 343-366 (OA)
• Charlotte Spence, "Communication with the Superhuman through Curse Tablets," 367-385 (OA)
• Gabriela De Tord Basterra, "Communicating with the Gods: Structures and Order of the Dedications in Local Languages from Italy," 386-403 (OA)

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Religion in the Roman Empire 8/1 (2022)

Georg Wissowa on Roman Religion of the Imperial Period

• Jörg Rüpke, "Preface: Georg Wissowa's View of Religious Change in the Imperial Period," 3
• Elisabeth Begemann, Jörg Rüpke, "Early Christianity in the Framework of Roman Religion: Georg Wissowa," 4-22 (abstract)
• Elisabeth Begemann, Jörg Rüpke, "Note on the Text," 23-81
• Elisabeth Begemann, "Georg Wissowa and Paul Hinneberg: The Hinneberg-Wissowa Correspondence," 82-97
• Elisabeth Begemann, "Introduction to the Teubner Correspondence: The Teubner-Wissowa Correspondence," 98-113
• Elisabeth Begemann, "The Correspondence between Georg Wissowa and Franz Cumont , 1888 to 1913," 114-156 (abstract)

 

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του Religion in the Roman Empire / In the current issue of Religion in the Roman Empire

 Religion in the Roman Empire 7/3 (2021)

• Sarah Parkhouse, "Selling the Mysteries in Roman Egypt," 315-333 (abstract)
• William Glyn-Jones, "Epiphany, Exaltation and the 'Sky Astonished'," 334-367 (abstract)
• Otto H. Linderborg, "'The Firstborn of Satan': The Origins of Heresy in Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians," 368-383 (abstract)
• Tibor Grüll, "'The Book of Fate': A Distinctive Representation of Matronae/Parcae and the Spread of Literacy in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire," 403-429 (abstract)
• Markus Vinzent, "The Argument from Silence in Religio-Historical Research," 430-456 (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του Religion in the Roman Empire / In the current issue of Religion in the Roman Empire

 Religion in the Roman Empire 7/2 (2021)

An Urban Archaeology of Ancient Religion

• Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke, "Introduction: Urban Archaeology," 217-220 
• Christopher H. Hallett, "The Wood Comes to the City: Ancient Trees, Sacred Groves, and the 'Greening' of Early Augustan Rome," 221-274 (abstract)
• Christopher P. Dickenson, "From 'Civic' to 'Urban' Religion in Roman Britain," 275-296 (abstract)
• Eivind Heldaas Seland, "Trade, Traders, and Religion in Gateway-Cities of the Roman East," 297-312 (abstract)

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 Religion in the Roman Empire 7/1 (2021)

Curses in Context, 2: Curses in the Eastern and North African Provinces of the Roman Empire

• Richard L. Gordon, "Curse-Practices in the Late-Antique Roman Levant and North Africa," 3-18 (abstract)
• Roger S. O. Tomlin, "The Latin Curses from Uley and Other Sanctuaries in Britain," 19-30 (abstract)
• Riccardo Vecchiato, "Crucified and Beheaded: The Archaeological Context of the Amathous Curses (DTAud 22–37)," 31-42 (abstract)
• Andrew T. Wilburn, "The Selenite and Lead Curse Tablets from Amathous, Cyprus and the Transmission of Magical Technology," 43-70 (abstract)
• Robert Daniel, "A Vestige of the Ptolemaic Crocodile Cult in a Curse from Caesarea Maritima against a Pantomime Dancer," 71-77 (abstract)
• Attilio Mastrocinque, "Cursing Dancers in the Roman Levant: A Forgotten Text in Milan," 78-95 (abstract)
• Raquel Martín Hernández, "The Figural Representation of Victims on Agonistic Late-Antique Curse Tablets," 96-124 (abstract)
• Christopher A. Faraone, "The Curse Tablets of PGM VII: A North African Tradition?" 125-148 (abstract)
• Ortal-Paz Saar, "Jewish Curse Tablets?" 149-166 (abstract)
• Korshi Dosoo, "The Powers of Death: Memory, Place and Eschatology in a Coptic Curse," 167-194 (abstract)
• Nicole Belayche, "Curse Tablets in the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire," 195-213 (abstract)

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 Religion in the Roman Empire 6/3 (2020)

• Brent D. Shaw, "Charity and the Poor in Roman Imperial Society,"  229-267 (abstract)
• Andromache Karanika, "Urban Landscapes and Religious Shifts in Lucian's Alexander," 268-287 (abstract)
• Jörg Rüpke, "Grasping Urbanity: Propertius' Book 4 and Urban Religion of the Augustan Period," 288-309 (abstract)
• Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, "Helpful Gods, Preaching Stoics, and Gossip from the Crossroads: Urban Religion in Horace's Satires and Epistles," 310-336 (abstract)

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 Religion in the Roman Empire 6/1 (2020)

• Harry O. Maier, Emiliano R. Urciuoli, "Urban Religion at the Neighbourhood Level in the Roman Empire: Christ Religion as Case Study,"  3-19 (abstract)
• Emiliano R. Urciuoli, "Good) People Next Door," 20-47 (abstract)
• Jan N. Bremmer, "Urban Religion, Neighbourhoods and the Early Christian Meeting Places,"  48-74 (abstract)
• Richard Last, "The Silence of a God-Fearer: Anonymous Dedication in CIL 6.390a = 30752,"  75-103 (abstract)
• Harry O. Maier, "Romans Watching Romans: Christ Religion in Close Urban Quarters and Neighbourhood Transformations," 104-121 (abstract)

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Religion in the Roman Empire 5/3 (2019)
Curses in Context, 1: Curse- Tablets in Italy and the Western Roman Empire

• Christopher A. Faraone, Richard L. Gordon, "Curse-Tablets in Italy and the Western Roman Empire: Development, Aims, Strategies and Competence," 319-334 (abstract)
• Paolo Vitellozzi, "Curses and Binding Rituals in Italy: Greek Tradition and Autochtonous Contexts," 335-362 (abstract)
• Riccardo Massarelli, "The Etruscan defixiones: From Contexts to Texts," 363-375 (abstract)
• Francisco Marco Simón, "Early Hispanic Curse Tablets: Greek, Latin – and Iberian?" 376-397 (abstract)
• Antón Alvar Nuño, "The Use of Curse Tablets among Slaves in Rome and its Western Provinces," 398-416 (abstract)
• Richard L. Gordon, "Do the 'Vernacular' Curse-Tablets from Italy Represent a Specific Knowledge- Practice?" 417-439 (abstract)
• Stuart McKie, "Enchained Relationships and Fragmented Victims," 440-455 (abstract)
• Celia Sánchez Natalías, "Aquatic Spaces as Contexts for Depositing defixiones in the Roman West," 456-467 (abstract)

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Religion of the Roman Empire 5/2 (2019)

• Julien Aliquot, "Heliopolitan Capitolia: From Greek Games to Christian Pilgrimage," 145-169 (abstract)
• Jonathan A. Pomeranz, "The Humility of God in Rabbinic Judaism: Rabbinic Myth in the Roman Empire," 170-195 (abstract)
• Jason J. Ripley, "The Genre of John and the Rule of Rome: Imperial Readers, Johannine Testimony, and the Death of the Author," 196-245 (abstract)
• Jan N. Bremmer, "Simon Magus: The Invention and Reception of a Magician in a Christian Context,"  246-270 (abstract)
• Maik Patzelt, "'Praying as a 'Woman among Men': Reconsidering Clodius' Failed Prayer in Cicero's Speech On his House," 271-291 (abstract)
• Jörg Rüpke, "Roman Gods and Private Property: The Invention of State Religion in Cicero's Speech On His House," 292-315 (abstract)

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Religion in the Roman Empire 5:1 (2019)

• Claudia Moser - Christopher Smith, "Transformations of Value: Lived Religion and the Economy," 3-22 (abstract)
• Maria Cristina Biella, "Gods of Value: Preliminary Remarks on Religion and Economy in Pre-Roman Italy," 23-45 (abstract)
• Claudia Moser, "Sacred Outreach: The Infrastructure of Port Sanctuaries in Republican Latium," 46-82 (abstract)
• J. B. Rives, "Animal Sacrifice and Euergetism in the Hellenistic and Roman Polis,"  83-102 (abstract)
• Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, "Crisis as Opportunity: Urban Renewal and Christianisation in Constantine's Gaul,"  103-124 (abstract)

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Religion in the Roman Empire 4:3 (2018)
Mystery Cults and Heresies in the Roman Empire: Polemics, Identities and Interactions

• Francesco Massa, "Introduction : 'Mysteries' and 'Heresies' between Practices and Notions," 275-288 (abstract)
• Claudio Zamagni, "The Elenchos and the 'Mysteries'," 289-302 (abstract)
• Anna van den Kerchove, "Mysteries, teletai and Mithras," 303-330 (abstract)
• Flavia Ruani, "Mystery Cults and Syriac Heresiology: A Fruitful Polemical Association?," 331-352 (abstract)
• Francesco Massa, "Mystery Cults in Epiphanius' Panarion," 353-375 (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του RRE / In the current issue of RRE

Religion in the Roman Empire 4:1 (2018)

• Roberto Alciati, "Introduction: The Ascetic Use of the Body," 3-8
• Catherine Hezser, "Self-Control in a World Controlled By Others: Palestinian Rabbinic 'Asceticism' in Late Antiquity," 9-27 (abstract)
• Andrea Piras, "Sealing the Body: Theory and Practices of Manichaean Asceticism," 28-44 (abstract)
• Roberto Alciati, "The Ascetic Knowledge: The Importance of Sense-Perception in Ancient Christian Asceticism," 45-62 (abstract)

Open Submissions

• Brandon Walker, "With Peter at the Games: Ritual Memory and the Acts of Peter," 65-89 (abstract)
• Petter Spjut, "The Counterfeit Spirit and the Concept of Fate in the Apocryphon of John: An Analysis of the Narrative Structure in NH II 20:9–21:12 and NH II 27:33–28:32," 90-104 (abstract)

Discussion Religious Change

• Jan N. Bremmer, "Jörg Rüpke's Pantheon," 107-112
• Corinne Bonnet, "Coping with Pantheon," 113-119
• Judith Lieu, "Jörg Rüpke's Pantheon: Some Personal Reflections," 120-126
• Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, "Jörg Rüpke's Pantheon: A Comprehensive History of Lived Religion in Ancient Rome," 127-131
• Jörg Rüpke, "Reflecting on Dealing with Religious Change," 132-154

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Religion in the Roman Empire 3:3 (2017)

• Clifford Ando / Christopher A. Faraone, "Introduction: Historical Improvisations in Imperial Religion," 289-297 
• Ian Moyer, "The Memphite Self-revelations of Isis and Egyptian Religion in the Hellenistic and Roman Aegean," 318-343 (abstract)
• Michael Blömer, "Revival or Reinvention? Local Cults and their Iconographies in Roman Syria," 344-365 (abstract)
• Carolina López-Ruiz, "'Not That Which Can Be Found Among the Greeks:' Philo of Byblos and Phoenician Cultural Identity in the Roman East," 366-392 (abstract)
• Matthew M. McCarty, "Africa Punica? Child Sacrifice and Other Invented Traditions in Early Roman Africa," 393-428 (abstract)

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Religion in the Roman Empire 3:2 (2017)

• Georgia Petridou, "Introduction: Lived Ancient Religion and the Body," 137-142 
• Patricia Baker, "Viewing Health: Asclepia in their Natural Settings,"  (abstract)
• Jane Draycott, When Lived Ancient Religion and Lived Ancient Medicine Meet: The Household Gods, the Household Shrine and Regimen," 164-180 (abstract)
• Jessica Hughes, "'Souvenirs of the Self': Personal Belongings as Votive Offerings in Ancient Religion," 181-201 (abstract)
• Matteo Martelli, "Alchemy, Medicine and Religion: Zosimus of Panopolis and the Egyptian Priests,"  202-220 (abstract)
• Antoine Pietrobelli, "Galen's Religious Itineraries," 221-241 (abstract)
• Georgia Petridou, "What is Divine about Medicine? Mysteric Imagery and Bodily Knowledge in Aelius Aristides and Lucian," 242-264 (abstract)
• Annette Weissenrieder, "Disease and Healing in a Changing World: 'Medical' Vocabulary and the Woman with the 'Issue of Blood' in the Vetus Latina Mark 5:25–34 and Luke 8:40–48," 265-285 (abstract)

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Religion in the Roman Empire 3:1 (2017)

• Paul Lichterman, Rubina Raja, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke, "Grouping Together in Lived Ancient Religion: Individual Interacting and the Formation of Groups," 3-10
• Anna-Katharina Rieger, "Loose Bonds and Porous Boundaries among Mobile People as Religious Agents in the Greco-Roman Arabian Desert," 11-49 (abstract)
• Tim Whitmarsh, "Atheism as a Group Identity in Ancient Greece," 50-65 (abstract)
• Clemens Leonhard, "Establishing Short-Term Communities in Eucharistic Celebrations of Antiquity," 66-86 (abstract)
• Françoise Van Haeperen, "Establishing, Displaying and Strengthening Group Identity by Making Offerings and Producing Texts: Some Case Studies from Ostia's Guilds," 87-118 (abstract)
• Eric Rebillard, Expressing Christianness in Carthage in the Second and Third Centuries," 119-134 (abstract)

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Religion in the Roman Empire 2:3 (2016)

The Significance of Objects: Considerations on Agency and Context

• Rubina Raja, Lara Weiss, "The Significance of Objects: Considerations on Agency and Context," 297-306 
• Katharina Rieger, "Waste Matters: Life Cycle and Agency of Pottery Employed in Greco-Roman Sacred Spaces," 307-339 (abstract)
• Rubina Raja, "In and Out of Contexts: Explaining Religious Complexity through the Banqueting Tesserae from Palmyra," 340-371 (abstract)
• Georgia Petridou, "Speaking Louder with the Eyes: Eye-shaped Ex-Votos in Context,"  372-390 (abstract)
• Frank Daubner, "Macedonian Small Towns and Their Use of Augustus," 391-414 (abstract)
• Chris Mowat,  "A Study on Spontaneity: Some Notes on the Divinatory Handbook P. Ryl. 28," 415-440 (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του RRE / In the current issue of RRE

Religion of Roman Empire 2:2 (2016)

• Jörg Rüpke, "Discourses and Narratives, Experiences and Identities," 149-151
• Eve-Marie Becker, "Shaping Identity by Writing History: Earliest Christianity in its Making," 152-169 (abstract)
• Jörg Rüpke, "The Role of Texts in Processes of Religious Grouping during the Principate," 170-195 (abstract)
• Luise Marion Frenkel, "Individual Christian Voices in the Narratives of Late Antique Acclamations," 196-226 (abstract)
• Richard L. Gordon, "Negotiating the Temple-Script Women's Narratives among the 'Confession-Texts' of Western Asia Minor," 227-255 (abstract)
• Jonas Grethlein, "Lucian's Response to Augustine Conversion and Narrative in Confessions and Nigrinus," 256-278 (abstract)
• M. David Litwa, "Phikola, a Mysterious Goddess at Phlya," 279-293 (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του RRE / In the current issue of RRE

Religion in the Roman Empire 2:1 (2016)

• Jörg Rüpke, "Creating Groups and Individuals in Textual Practices," 3-9
• Anton Bierl, "Lived Religion and the Construction of Meaning in Greek Literary Texts: Genre, Context, Occasion," 10-37 (abstract)
• Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, "Giving the Gift of Eternity, or: The Medium is the Message in Statius' Silvae 3.3," 38-71 (abstract)
• Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, "The Collection of Traditions in Monastic and Rabbinic Anthologies as a Reflection of Lived Religion," 72-90 (abstract)
• Eric Rebillard, "Everyday Christianity in Carthage at the Time of Tertullian," 91-102 (abstract)
• Markus Vinzent, "Embodied Early and Medieval Christianity: Challenging its 'Canonical' and 'Institutional' 'Origin'," 103-124 (abstract)
• Rubina Raja, "Representations of Priests in Palmyra: Methodological Considerations on the Meaning of the Representation of Priesthood in the Funerary Sculpture from Roman Period Palmyra," 125-146 (abstract)

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Religion in the Roman Empire 1:3 (2015)

• Jörg Rüpke, "Narratives as a Lens into Lived Ancient Religion, Individual Agency and Collective Identity," 289-296
• Harriet I. Flower, "Sulla's Memoirs as an Account of Individual Religious Experience," 297-320
• Georgia Petridou," Emplotting: the Divine Epiphanic Narratives as Means of Enhancing Agency," 321-342
• Simon Goldhill, "Lived Experience, History, and Narrative Form in the Rabbinical Writings," 343-377
• Teresa Morgan, "Living with the Gods in Fables of the Early Roman Empire," 378-402
• Malcolm Choat, "Narratives of Monastic Genealogy in Coptic Inscriptions," 403-430

Το τρέχον τεύχος του REE / The current issue of RRE

Religion of the Roman Empire 1:2 (2105)

• Rubina Raja, Lara Weiss, "The Role of Objects: Meanings, Situations and Interaction," 137-147 
• Richard Gordon, "Showing the Gods the Way: Curse-tablets as Deictic Persuasion," 148-180 (abstract)
• Ioanna Patera, "Objects as Substitutes in Ancient Greek Ritual," 181-200 (abstract)
• Andreas Kropp, "The Tyche of Berytus: A Phoenician Goddess on Civic Coinage," 201-218 (abstract)
• Hallie G. Meredith, "Engaging Mourners and Maintaining Unity: Third and Fourth Century Gold-Glass Roundels from Roman Catacombs," 219-241 (abstract)
• Alison Cooley, "Multiple Meanings in the Sanctuary of the Magna Mater at Ostia," 242-262 (abstract)
• Drew Wilburn, "Inscribed Ostrich Eggs at Berenike and Materiality in Ritual Performance, 263-285"(abstract)