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CONTENTS

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Acknowledgments

I A History of Mediterranean Religion

1 What Is Meant by a History of Mediterranean Religion?

2 Religion

3 Facets of Religious Competence

4 Religion as a Strategy at the Level of the Individual

II Revolutions in Religious Media in Iron Age Italy: The Ninth to Seventh Centuries BC

1 The Special

2 The Transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age in the Mediterranean Region

3 Ritual Deposits

4 Burials

5 Gods, Images, and Banquets

III Religious Infrastructure: The Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC

1 Houses for Gods

2 Temples and Altars?

3 Dynamics of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries

IV Religious Practices: The Sixth to Third Centuries BC

1 The Use of Bodies

2 Sacralization

3 Complex Rituals

4 Stories and Images

V The Appropriation and Shaping of Religious Practices by Religious Actors: The Fifth to First Centuries BC

1 Heterarchy and Aristocracy

2 Priests

3 Distinction

4 Banquet Culture

5 Mass Communication

6 The Divine

VI Speaking and Writing about Religion: The Third to First Centuries BC

1 The Textuality of Ritual

2 Observation of Self and of the Other

3 Systematization

VII The Redoubling of Religion in the Augustan Saddle Period: The First Century BC to the First Century AD

1 Restoration as Innovation

2 Religion in Space

3 The Redoubling of Religion

VIII Lived Religion: The First to Second Centuries AD

1 Individuals in Their Relationship with the World

2 Home and Family

3 Learning Religion

4 Places Where Religion Was Experienced

5 Domestic Gods

6 Lived Religion Rather Than Domestic Cult

IX New Gods: The First Century BC to the Second Century AD

1 Background

2 Isis and Serapis

3 Augusti: Initiatives

4 The Self

5 Résumé

X Experts and Providers: The First to Third Centuries AD

1 Religious Authority

2 Experts Male and Female

3 “Public” Priests and Religious Innovation

4 Prophetesses and Visionaries

5 Founders of Religion

6 Changes

XI Notional and Real Communities: The First to Third Centuries AD

1 Textual Communities

2 Narratives

3 Historization and the Origin of Christianity

4 Religious Experiences and Identities

XII Demarcations and Modes of Community: The Third to Fourth Centuries AD

1 The Market Value of Religious Knowledge

2 Political Actors

3 The Treatment of Difference

4 The Competitive Scene

XIII Epilogue

Notes

References

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