Urban Religion in Mediterranean Antiquity: Relocating Religious Change

摘要: The claim formulated in this article is that city-space and interaction with engineered the major changes revolutionised ancient Mediterranean religions. Whereas previous research on religion has stressed role of for cities urban topography, we are suggesting a new focus impact how changed religion. This side dialectic what call concept paramount, since it encompasses development specific religious agencies practices (e.g. neighbourhood shrines, theatrical processions; text production supply services), forms knowledge imaginaries (imaginative places; imagined communities, heavenly cities) societal phenomena such as civic rituals or communities appropriation (and hence modification formation) space different size character. questions propose are: to extent shaped by density, aspirations, diversity conflict, city governance, heterarchical distribution power division labour, identity, urbanity? basic assumption change needs be investigated terms ongoing between variety agents, including residents, immigrants, people who live off