Project description
The relationship between urban, rural religiosity
The Roman Empire, in general, and the role and impact of religion, in particular, are both widely researched topics. However, some aspects remain unexplored. The EU-funded RENE project will conduct an interdisciplinary study to identify the relationship between urban and rural religiosity and the role of various factors such as different communities, traditions, culture and elites in the Roman Empire from the 200 BC to the 300 AD. The project will study two extreme areas of the Empire. The first is the Hauran in Southern Syria. The second is Lusitania in the Iberian Peninsula. The focus will be on the geography and the role political and social actors played.
Objective
RENE is a first interdisciplinary study to investigate interactions between rural and urban cult sites, their communities, the diffusion of religious traditions and architectural style, the regional mobility of elite (temple benefactors and dedicators), and how the latter affected religious traits. It is based on published archaeological, epigraphic and sculptural materials in two extreme parts of the Roman Empire. They are: the Hauran (Southern Syria), and Lusitania (roughly Portugal and the western part of Spain) from the pre-Roman to the Roman period periods (the second century BC to the third century AD). It will examine their variation and reasoning by contextualising the study areas within their geography and their socio-political background, which will contribute to scholarly debates on the Roman world from the West to the East. It will reevaluate rural and urban cult sites as multifaceted indicators of continuous evolving religious processes and of fluctuating contexts shaped by interactions of different social and political actors through the emergent computer-based method of social network analysis (SNA) that I will learn thanks to the training programme offered by Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. The database of cult sites, their SNA models and results of RENE will be freely available on the project’s website which I will create thanks to the training programme of the fellowship.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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5020 Bergen
Norway
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