Objective "This project takes a completely new perspective on the religious history of Mediterranean antiquity, starting from the individual and “lived” religion instead of cities or peoples. “Lived ancient religion” suggests a set of experiences, of practices addressed to, and conceptions of the divine, which are appropriated, expressed, and shared by individuals in diverse social spaces. Within this spatial continuum from the primary space of a) the family, b) the secondary space of associations, c) to the shared space of public institutions and d) trans-local literary communication four research fields are defined. In each of them a sub-project addresses representative complexes of evidence in different parts of the Mediterranean in the Imperial period. They are bound together by the transversal analysis of the interaction of individuals with the agents of traditions and providers of religious services in the various fields. The methodological innova¬tion of the “lived ancient religion” approach is defined through the notions of religious experience, embodiment, and “culture formed in interaction"", which are intended to replace the present foci of symbols, rituals, and “culture as text”.In order to transgress the usual research boundaries of “cults” and “religions” the bodies of evidence brought together within the sub-projects cover ancient Mediterranean religion geographically in an extended manner, focusing on Egypt and Italy, Syria and Greece, but also including evidence from the Western and Danubian provinces as well as from North Africa. The project of “Lived Ancient Religion” is pioneering inasmuch as it develops and tests a far-reaching alternative model to “cults” and “polis religion” in order to analyse and describe ancient Mediterranean religion. Its risk lies in modifying the methodology implied in the “lived religion” approach to contemporary religion for the necessities of a body of evidence that is characteristic of a “dead religion”." Fields of science humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistoryancient historyhumanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionreligions Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-AG-SH6 - ERC Advanced Grant - The study of the human past Call for proposal ERC-2011-ADG_20110406 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Host institution UNIVERSITAT ERFURT EU contribution € 2 326 220,00 Address NORDHAUSER STRASSE 63 99089 Erfurt Germany See on map Region Thüringen Thüringen Erfurt, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Margrit Elsner (Ms.) Principal investigator Jörg Rüpke (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITAT ERFURT Germany EU contribution € 2 326 220,00 Address NORDHAUSER STRASSE 63 99089 Erfurt See on map Region Thüringen Thüringen Erfurt, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Margrit Elsner (Ms.) Principal investigator Jörg Rüpke (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
