TY - BOOK AU - Rüpke,Jörg TI - On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome T2 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology SN - 9781501706264 AV - BL803 .R84 2017 U1 - 292.07 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Experience (Religion) KW - History KW - Religion KW - Social aspects KW - Rome KW - Ancient History & Classical Studies KW - Religious Studies KW - HISTORY / Ancient / Rome KW - bisacsh KW - state religion, ancient history, religion of the romans, religion in the ancient Roman, Religious Studies, religious experiences N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Individual Appropriation of Religion --; 2. Individual Decision and Social Order --; 3. Appropriating Images—Embodying Gods --; 4. Testing the Limits of Ritual Choices --; 5. Reconstructing Religious Experience --; 6. Dynamics of Individual Appropriation --; 7. Religious Communication --; 8. Instructing Literary Practice in The Shepherd of Hermas --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; General Index --; Index of Passages; restricted access N2 - Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.― Religious Studies ReviewWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, 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. On Roman Religion 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, Rüpke highlights the dynamic character of Rome’s religious institutions and traditions.In Rüpke’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. Rüpke 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. Rüpke also concentrates on the ways in which literary texts and inscriptions informed the practice of rituals UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501706264 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501706264 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501706264/original ER -