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Götterbilder schaffen eine eigene Welt theologischer Reflexion und religiöser Praxis. Texte vermitteln Gottesbilder von hoher Komplexität. Bildliche Darstellungen müssen indessen Gottesbilder auf das Wesentliche reduzieren. Diesen Reduktionsprozess lediglich als Simplifizierung zu begreifen, wäre unangemessen. Vielmehr handelt es sich um einen Konzentrationsprozess, der durch die bewusst evozierte Vieldeutigkeit der Wahrnehmung eine neue Komplexität erzeugt. Nicht von ungefähr besteht zwischen der durch Bilder einerseits und durch Texte andererseits vermittelte Profilierung von Gottesvorstellungen eine erhebliche Diskrepanz. Die Ursachen dafür liegen natürlich primär in den unterschiedlichen Möglichkeiten der Darstellungsmedien. Doch Medien sind nicht nur Mittel zum Zweck, sondern überlegt gewählte Filter, die Wahrnehmung gezielt leiten sollen.Der vorliegende Band untersucht dieses Phänomen in Beiträgen grundsätzlicher Art und in materialen Präsentationen aus dem Bereich des Alten Orients, Griechenlands und der Welt des Hellenismus. Bewusst sind auch Beiträge aus dem Kontakt zwischen Christentum und Islam zum Thema Bildverehrung integriert worden. Dadurch wird deutlich, welche Kompensationsstrategien entwickelt werden, wo bildliche Repräsentationen dem theologischen Verdikt unterliegen.Der Band enthält achtzehn Beiträge von international bekannten Forschern in deutscher und englischer Sprache.

Gods in art. --- Idols and images. --- Archaeology and religion. --- Iconoclasm in art. --- Assyro-Babylonian religion. --- Idols and images --- Religion, Assyro-Babylonian --- Religions --- Archaeology --- Religion and archaeology --- Religion --- Iconography --- Images and idols --- Religious images --- Statuettes --- Animism --- Art, Primitive --- Art and religion --- Fetishism --- Magic --- Sculpture, Primitive --- Symbolism --- Gods in art --- Religious aspects --- Greece --- Religion. --- Iconography, Religious --- Religious iconography --- Religious statuettes --- Statuettes, Religious --- Religious art --- Veneration of images. --- divine image. --- divine images. --- ideas of God.

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What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, and what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: In contrast to ancient Christians, who had faith, Romans had knowledge, and their knowledge was empirical in orientation. In other words, the Romans acquired knowledge of the gods through observation of the world, and their rituals were maintained or modified in light of what they learned. After a preface and opening chapters that lay out this argument about knowledge and place it in context, The Matter of the Gods pursues a variety of themes essential to the study of religion in history.

HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Rome --- Religion. --- ancient christianity. --- ancient christians. --- ancient church. --- ancient religion. --- ancient rome. --- ancient world. --- antiquity. --- belief. --- christian. --- christianity. --- classical world. --- classics. --- faith. --- imperialism. --- paganism. --- philosophical. --- philosophy. --- religion. --- religious ritual. --- religious studies. --- roman empire. --- roman gods. --- roman history. --- western world. --- world history.

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The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity. Advances our understanding of household and family religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia Explores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deities or of spirits associated with the house itself Examines lifecycle rituals & from pregnancy and birth to maturity, old age, death, and beyond Looks at religious practices relating to the household both within the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramural tombs and local sanctuaries

Families --- Religions --- Familles --- Religious life --- History --- Vie religieuse --- Histoire --- Religions. --- Religious life. --- Family --- -Religions. --- 392.3 --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Familieleven. Familiesystemen. Gezinsleven. Matriarchaat. Patriarchaat. Kinship --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- 392.3 Familieleven. Familiesystemen. Gezinsleven. Matriarchaat. Patriarchaat. Kinship --- Family worship --- Families - Religious life

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The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early Christianity. The notion of 'mystery' was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift from ritualist to ethical salvation.

Cybele (Goddess) --- Serapis (Egyptian deity) --- Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) --- Mithra (Zoroastrian deity) --- Zoroastrian gods --- Mithraism --- Cult. --- Isis --- Aset --- Eset --- Iset --- İsida --- Isidi --- Izida --- Iziso --- Iside --- Izidė --- Ízisz --- Izyda --- 伊西斯 --- Yi xi si --- イシス --- Ishisu --- איזיס --- 이시스 --- Isiseu --- Исида --- Изида --- Ісіда --- إيزيس --- Īzīs --- Ἴσις --- Rome --- Religion. --- Cybele (Goddess) - Cult --- Attis (God) - Cult --- Isis (Egyptian deity) - Cult --- Serapis (Egyptian deity) - Cult --- Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) - Cult --- Rome - Religion --- Attis (God) --- Isis (Egyptian deity)

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Beeldhouwkunst [Hellenistische ] --- Hellenism --- Hellenisme --- Hellenistic sculpture --- Hellenistische beeldhouwkunst --- Hellénisme --- Sculpture [Hellenistic ] --- Sculpture hellénistique --- Sculpture, Hellenistic --- Hellenism. --- Idols and images --- Judaism --- Idoles et images --- Judaïsme --- Congresses. --- Worship. --- History --- Congrès --- Culte --- Histoire --- Civilisation grecque antique --- Hellénisme antique --- Sculpture hellénistique --- Hellénisme --- Judaïsme --- Congrès --- Sculpture, Greek --- Iconography --- Images and idols --- Religious images --- Statuettes --- Animism --- Art, Primitive --- Art and religion --- Fetishism --- Magic --- Religion --- Sculpture, Primitive --- Symbolism --- Gods in art --- Worship --- Middle East --- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. --- Iconography, Religious --- Religious iconography --- Religious statuettes --- Statuettes, Religious --- Religious art