SENSORIVM: the senses in Roman polytheism

by Alvar Nuño, Antón Alvar, Jaime Woolf, Greg

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Full title :SENSORIVM : the senses in Roman polytheism / edited by Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, Greg Woolf.

Summary

"SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism explores how a range of cults and rituals were perceived and experienced by participants through one or more senses. The present collection brings together papers from an international group of researchers all inspired by 'the sensory turn'. Focusing on a wide range of ritual traditions from around the ancient Roman world, they explore the many ways in which smell and taste, sight and sound, separately and together, involved participants in religious performance. Music, incense, images and colors, contrasts of light and dark played as great a role as belief or observance in generating religious experience. Together they contribute to an original understanding of the Roman sensory universe, and add an embodied perspective to the notion of Lived Ancient Religion. Contributors are Martin Devecka; Visa Helenius; Yulia Ustinova; Attilio Mastrocinque; Maik Patzelt; Mark Bradley; Adeline Grand-Clément; Rocío Gordillo Hervás; Rebeca Rubio; Elena Muñiz Grijalvo; David Espinosa-Espinosa; A. César González-García, Marco V. García-Quintela; Jörg Rüpke; Rosa Sierra del Molino; Israel Campos Méndez; Valentino Gasparini; Nicole Belayche; Antón Alvar Nuño; Jaime Alvar Ezquerra; Clelia Martínez Maza"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021

The Physical Object

Description:458 p. ; : 24cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004459731, 9004459731
oclc:on1248684282

Introduction / Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, and Greg Woolf -- Faces of death : Lucretius, religio, and vision at Rome / Martin Devecka -- Lucretius and the body-environment approach / Visa Helenius -- Hirpi Sorani and modern fire-walkers : rejoicing through pain in extreme rituals / Yulia Ustinova -- Empowered tongues / Attilio Mastrocinque -- Favete linguis and the experience of the divine : a cognitively grounded approach to sensory perception in Roman religion / Maik Patzelt -- The triumph of the senses : sensory awareness and the divine in Roman public celebrations / Mark Bradley -- Sensorium, sensescapes, synaesthesia, multisensoriality : a new way of approaching religious experience in antiquity? / Adeline Grand-Clément -- Day and night in the agones of the Roman Isthmian games / Rocío Gordillo Hervás -- Multisensory experiences in Mithraic initiation / Rebeca Rubio -- Imperial mysteries and religious experience / Elena Muñiz Grijalvo -- Pro consensu et concordia civium : sensoriality, imperial cult, and social control in Augustan urban orientations / David Espinosa-Espinosa, A. César González-García, and Marco V. García-Quintela -- Finding religion in reported se…

Subjects

Cultes -- Rome Cults Cults -- Rome RELIGION Religión romana Ritual Ritual -- Rome Rituel -- Rome Rome -- Religion Rome (Empire) Senses and sensation -- Religious aspec… Sentidos