Religious Dynamics in a Microcontinent. Cult Places, Identities, and Cultural Change in Hispania

Paperback, 248 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:14 b/w, 16 col., 5 tables b/w., 5 maps b/w, 3 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503595450. Summary The Roman conquest of the Iberian peninsula, a land already inhabited by peoples who were characterized by cultural, ethnic, and social diversity, was one of the longest and most complex colonial processes to have occurred in the Roman world. Different political entities saw integration and interaction taking place at different speeds and via different mechanisms, and these differences had a profound impact on the development of religious dynamics and cultural change across the peninsula. This edited volume draws together contributions from a number of experts in the field in order to deepen our understanding of religious phenomena in Hispania ? in particular cult, rituals, mechanisms, and spaces ? and in doing so, to offer new insights into processes of cultural and social change, and the impact of conquest and colonialism. The chapters gathered here identify how forms of religious interaction occurred at different levels and scales, and explore the ways in which religion and religious practices underpinned the construction, development, and renegotiation of different identities. Through this approach they shed important light on the crucial role of cultic practices in defining cultural and social identity as Iberia's provincial communities were drawn into the Roman world. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of illustrations Abbreviations 1. Introduction Alejandro G. Sinner and V ctor Revilla Calvo PART I. Rituals in Context 2. Ritual Practices and Sacred Landscapes: Identity and Territorial Organisation in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Eastern Iberia Ignasi Grau Mira 3. The Sacred Landscape of Western Hispania in the Roman Period Thomas G. Schattner 4. Rock Sanctuaries and Roman Epigraphy Marc Mayer Oliv 5. Religious Practices and Rural Cult Sites in Hispania Citerior: Some Reflections Alejandro G. Sinner and V ctor Revilla Calvo 6. Roman Colonies and Local Cults: the Example of Augusta Emerita (M rida) in Lusitania Jonathan Edmondson 7. Private Beliefs, Domestic Religion, and Identity in Hispania Mar a P rez Ruiz PART II. Strategies, Mechanisms, and Practice ?8. Religion and Identity on a Microcontinent Greg Woolf 9. Coinage and the Religious Beliefs of the Peoples of Hispania: Tradition and Foreign Influences Marta Campo D az 10. Rome's Memory and Ritual in Hispania Ana Mayorgas 11. Roman Past and Local Identities: the Case of Saguntum V ctor Revilla Calvo 12. The Imperial Cult and Consensus Rituals in Hispania: First Century BCE - First Century CE Fransisco Marco Sim n 13. Localising 'Oriental Cults' in Roman Iberia: Relationality, Power and Place Matthew M. McCarty and Kimberly Edher Bibliography Index of Sources Index of Names 0 g.…