Project description
Unlocking ancient mysteries of salvation
How do we examine salvation experiences and theories in a world deeply rooted in the desire for salvation across various facets of life? With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the MappingSalvation project tackles this challenge by introducing a pioneering approach. Against the backdrop of the early Roman imperial age in the Mediterranean basin, it envisions this world as a vast network of salvation itineraries. It strives to empirically validate a new analytical model and promote interdisciplinary cooperation, ultimately reshaping our perception of salvation from antiquity to the pressing concerns of the contemporary world. If successful, MappingSalvation will revolutionise our understanding of salvation, bridging ancient wisdom with our modern world’s urgent need to safeguard lives, species and the planet.
Objective
MappingSalvation aims at establishing a novel methodology for the study of salvation experiences and theories, structured around a newly developed epistemic model that allows for a thorough investigation of salvation itineraries across multiple cultural contexts.
The geographical-historical framework of reference for this research is the Mediterranean basin in the early Roman imperial age, a world animated by a strong, pervasive desire for salvation, which permeated most areas of human experience: philosophical reflection, religious cults and beliefs, political life and ideology, ritual and divinatory practice.
This project relies on the groundbreaking hypothesis that only by conceiving the ancient Mediterranean world as a wide, intricate
network of salvation itineraries, can we fully exploit the heuristic potential of the category of ‘salvation’, understand the profound
philosophical-religious dynamics of the first centuries AD, and even discover unexpected similarities between this age and our
contemporary world, where the needs to save human lives, animal species and our planet are all the more urgent and intense.
By analysing the Greek and Latin works of two apparently distant thinkers (Seneca the Younger and Clement of Alexandria), MappingSalvation will attain a twofold aim: first, to validate empirically a new analytical model and taxonomical system for the examination and categorisation of salvation itineraries; second, to inaugurate a wide-ranging discussion around the concept of salvation, and a cooperation among different scholars and fields of expertise that have worked separately until today.
If successful, MappingSalvation will revolutionise the way in which we look at salvation in antiquity and beyond, and will establish a shared conceptual apparatus and common epistemic standards for its study.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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75014 Paris
France
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