Description
This volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences.
Many classical sources often only tangentially allude to processions, focusing instead on other ritual moments, such as sacrifice. This book adopts a comparative approach, bringing together historians of antiquity and later periods as well as social anthropologists working on contemporary societies, analysing both ancient and modern examples of how rituals, symbols, actors, and spectators interact in the construction of communities. The different examples explored in this study illustrate the performative capacity of processions to construct reality: the protagonism of image and movement, the design of cultic itineraries, and the active participation of members of the public. In studying these examples, readers develop an understanding of how power is exercised and perceived, the extent of its legitimacy, and the limits of community in a variety of case studies.
Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity is of interest to students and scholars of the classical and early Christian worlds, especially those working on cult, religion, and community formation. The volume also appeals to social anthropologists interested in these issues across a broader chronology.
Author: Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/30/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781032294490
ISBN10: 1032294493
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | General
About the Author
Elena Muñiz Grijalvo is Professor of Ancient History, at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla. She works on different aspects of ancient Mediterranean religions, with special interest in Greek religion in Roman times, and in Oriental religions which made a success in the Roman world (particularly the cults of Isis and Sarapis). Her publications include Himnos a Isis (Madrid, 2006), Ruling the Greek World (Stuttgart, 2015) and Empire and Religion: Religious Change in Greek Cities under Roman Rule (Leiden, 2017).
Alberto del Campo Tejedor is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville), author of 22 books and more than a hundred papers focused on religion, ritual, sports, symbolism, humor or oral literature
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