Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
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Part of Ancient Religion and Cognition
- Editors:
- Blanka Misic, Champlain College, Lennoxville
- Abigail Graham, Institute of Classical Studies, London
- Date Published: January 2024
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009355544
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How do the senses shape the way we perceive, understand, and remember ritual experiences? This book applies cognitive and sensory approaches to Roman rituals, reconnecting readers with religious experiences as members of an embodied audience. These approaches allow us to move beyond the literate elites to examine broader audiences of diverse individuals, who experienced rituals as participants and/or performers. Case studies of ritual experiences from a variety of places, spaces, and contexts across the Roman world, including polytheistic and Christian rituals, state rituals, private rituals, performances, and processions, demonstrate the dynamic and broad-scale application that cognitive approaches offer for ancient religion, paving the way for future interdisciplinary engagement. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Read more- Applies a range of approaches from cross- and interdisciplinary scholarship on ritual experiences to ancient rituals in a variety of spaces, places, and contexts
- Introduces new cognitive approaches and theories in an accessible manner, with step-by-step explanations and examples
- Combines scholarship on cognition (the mind) and senses (the body) in order to reflect lived experiences more accurately
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'It is difficult to underestimate the enormous added value of this study. By adding neuroscience, CSR, Cognitive Historiography, biocultural approaches and haptic views on ritual and ritual dynamics, we can now make visible previously invisible dimensions within cult participation, personal religion and ritual performance. … [a] scholarly and literary gem that will be part of the discourse on ancient religion and ritual for a long time to come.' Mark Beumer, Kleio-Historia
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- Date Published: January 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009355544
- length: 242 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.496kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus. 17 colour illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: experiencing rituals Abigail Graham and Blanka Misic
1. Remembering the rites: religious learning network model and transmission of religious rituals in the worship of Nutrices Augustae (Poetovio, Pannonia Superior) Blanka Misic
2. The haptic production of religious knowledge among the vestal virgins: a hands-on approach to Roman ritual Emma-Jayne Graham
3. Haptic colour: experiential viewing in Graeco-Roman sacred spaces Vicky Jewell
4. Ain't nobody gonna rain on my parade: experiencing Salutaris' procession as a ritual event Abigail Graham
5. Objects and ritual in Egeria's fourth century pilgrimage: the props of my faith Steven Muir
6. Conclusions: (re)creating ritual experiences Blanka Misic and Abigail Graham.
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