{"product_id":"on-roman-religion-lived-religion-and-the-individual-in-ancient-rome-9781501735110","title":"On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome","description":"\u003cp\u003eProvocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.?- \u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression?\u003c\/b\u003e Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? J?rg R?pke, one of the world's leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying, dedicating, making vows, and reading. \u003ci\u003eOn Roman Religion\u003c\/i\u003e definitively dismantles previous approaches that depicted religious practice as uniform and static. Juxtaposing very different, strategic, and even subversive forms of individuality with traditions, their normative claims, and their institutional protections, R?pke highlights the dynamic character of Rome's religious institutions and traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn R?pke's view, lived ancient religion is as much about variations or even outright deviance as it is about attempts and failures to establish or change rules and roles and to communicate them via priesthoods, practices related to images or classified as magic, and literary practices. R?pke analyzes observations of religious experience by contemporary authors including Propertius, Ovid, and the author of the \"Shepherd of Hermas.\" These authors, in very different ways, reflect on individual appropriation of religion among their contemporaries, and they offer these reflections to their readership or audiences. R?pke also concentrates on the ways in which literary texts and inscriptions informed the practice of rituals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ?rg R?pke is Permanent Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eFrom Jupiter to Christ: On the History of Religion in the Roman Imperial Period\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Religion: Antiquity and Modern Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReligion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873437847826,"sku":"9781501735110","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4bd5aafd-6a8b-47b3-8c0c-7f61cd9015c9.jpg?v=1737934451","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-roman-religion-lived-religion-and-the-individual-in-ancient-rome-9781501735110","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}