Select The archaeology of ancient cult: from foundation deposits to religion in Roman Mithraism The archaeology of ancient cult: from foundation deposits to religion in Roman Mithraism

• Autores: Aurel Rustoiu, Mariana Egri, Matthew M. McCarty
• Localización: Journal of Roman archaeology, ISSN 1047-7594, Vol. 32, Nº. 1, 2019, págs. 279-312
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the past two decades, the 'archaeology of religion' has moved from the margins of scholarship to the center, led by the growth of postprocessual archaeological hermeneutics. 1 Such theoretical frames – whether the materiality of religion, objects as agents, the entanglement of humans and objects, or “thing theory” – demonstrate the centrality of the physical world and its archaeological correlates to religion. They offer new ways of posing questions about the construction of meanings for worshippers through materials