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Auteur(s) : Hunt, Ailsa
Titre(s) : Reviving Roman religion [Texte imprimé] : sacred trees in the Roman world / Ailsa Hunt
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-333 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Cambridge classical studies
Lien à la collection : Cambridge classical studies
Comprend : Rooting in: why give time to sacred trees? ; A brief history of tree-thinking: the
enduring power of animism ; How arboreal matter matters: rethinking sacrality through
trees ; Arboriculture and arboreal deaths: rethinking sacrality again ; Confronting
arboreal agency: reading the divine in arboreal behaviour ; Imagining the gods: how
trees flesh out the identity of the divine ; Branching out: what sacred trees mean
for Roman religion.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 302-327. Index
Sacred trees are easy to dismiss as a simplistic, weird phenomenon, but this book
argues that in fact they prompted sophisticated theological thinking in the Roman
world. Challenging major aspects of current scholarly constructions of Roman religion,
Ailsa Hunt rethinks what sacrality means in Roman culture, proposing an organic model
which defies the current legalistic approach. She approaches Roman religion as a 'thinking'
religion (in contrast to the engrained idea of Roman religion as orthopraxy) and warns
against writing the environment out of our understanding of Roman religion, as has
happened to date. Moreover, the individual trees showcased in this book have much
to tell us which enriches and thickens our portraits of Roman religion, be it the
subtleties of engaging in imperial cult, the meaning of numen, the interpretation
of portents, or the way statues of the Divine communicate
Sujet(s) : Arbres -- Religion
Arbres sacrés
Religions -- Rome
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107153547. - ISBN 1107153549
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45053688t
Notice n° :
FRBNF45053688
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