TY  - BOOK
AU  - D. Jaime Alvar Ezquerra
AU  - Clelia Martínez Maza
AU  - Antón Alvar Nuño
PY  - 2024
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783034348737
TI  - Calling Upon Gods, Offering Bodies
T2  - Strategies of Human-Divine Communication in the Roman Empire from Individual Experience to Social Reproduction
DO  - 10.3726/b21661
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1420976
N2  - This volume aims at analysing how self-experience of religious communication becomes a reflexive phenomenon reproduced in time and space to constitute a collectively shared narrative. The issues addressed in this volume investigate how individual, creative micro-strategies of communication with the gods became established patterns of behaviour, to what extent individual behaviour was mediated by cultural constraints, or why individual biographies of divine experience became exempla and identity markers.  The different chapters of this volume explore human-divine communication through three different study-cases: linguistic communication and, specially, the role and processes of construction of divine epithets; the use of the body as a tool for communication with the supernatural; and the role of objects in the human-divine communicative act.
KW  - Religion, Polytheism, Early Christianity, Divine Epithets, asceticism, relics, embodiment, ritual, miracles, religious communication, sacrifice, votive offerings
LA  - English
ER  -