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Social Science Sociology Of Religion

Travel and Religion in Antiquity

edited by Philip A. Harland

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
Initial publish date
Nov 2016
Category
Sociology of Religion, General, History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781554582228
    Publish Date
    Mar 2011
    List Price
    $85.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554584796
    Publish Date
    Nov 2016
    List Price
    $48.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554583447
    Publish Date
    Mar 2011
    List Price
    $48.99

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Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation.

With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus.

About the author

Philip A. Harland is an associate professor in humanities and ancient history at York University. His recent books on social and religious life in the Greco-Roman world include Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations (2003) and Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians (2009). He also runs a group of websites, a podcast, and a blog on religions of the ancient Mediterranean at philipharland.com.

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