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Call for papers: conferences about Roman Religion

RELIGION IN PIECES

An Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Brown University, April 27-29th, 2012

We invite abstracts from 250-500 words, accompanied by a Curriculum Vitae, to socamr@gmail.com. Deadline for submission is midnight of January 28thth, 2012. Participants will be contacted with an invitation to participate by the beginning of March, 2012.

Other CFP of the same society, see HERE 

PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN ANTIQUE ROME

Academia dell' Ungheria di Roma, Department of Medieval Studies, CEU, Budapest

Palazzo Falconieri, Academia dell'Ungheria di Roma, Via Giulia 1, Rome, 20 - 21 September, 2012.

Deadline: 15 April, 2012.

More details: HERE

ASPECTS OF ANCIENT GREEK CULTS II:  Architecture – Context – Music
An International Colloquium in Honor of Erik Hansen
4-6 May 2012, Copenhagen

Abstracts and other information can be found: HERE

RELIGIOUS DEBATES IN LATE ANTIQUITY: A genre of intolerance?

April 25, 2012: 

Prof. Dr. Peter van Nuffelen (Gent)

Forschungskolloquium "Antike Religion"

Adresse

Kollegiengebäude

Hörsaal 313

Marstallhof 4

69117 Heidelberg

XIII ROMAN PROVINCIAL ART

The Archaeological Institute "Vasile Parvan", Bucharest and itspartener institutions are pleaced to announce the XIII. International Conference of Roman Provincial Art, Bucharest  -Constanta - Alba Iulia, May 28- Iune 3., 2013. 

Detailes about the conference and call for paper: HERE

Actualities: Law and religion

Felix sit annus novus!

The strict relationship between Law and Religion in the Roman civilization was always an obvious observation of the historiography (see the basic book of  Wissowa about Roman Religion).  The reinterpretation of Roman Law and Religion is now a very fertile topic of the current historiography of Roman Religion.

The last work of this kind is a collective volume appeared as the 336.th volume of  the Brill series "History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity". The book "Law and Religion in the Roman Republic" edited by Olga Tellegen - Couperus (223.p.) is the first monograph of this kind in the last years, concentrating on the aspects of Law and Religion in the Roman Republic. After a short introduction by the editor, the book has three parts:

I. Law and Religion as means to control the future (2 articles by Leon ter Beek and Federico Santangelo)

II. Priests, magistrates and the state (4 articles by Michel Humm, Jörg Rüpke, Jan Hendrik Valgaeren and Linda Zollschan)

III. Sacred law, civil law and the citizen (Olga Tellegen - Couperus)

A short description of the book: "Over the past two hundred plus years, scholarship has admired Roman law for being the first autonomous legal science in history. This biased view has obscured the fact that, traditionally, law was closely connected to religion and remained so well into the Empire. Building on a variety of sources – epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic – this book discloses how law and religion shared the same patrons (magistrates and priests) and a common goal (to deal with life’s uncertainties), and how, from the third century B.C., they underwent a process of rationalization. Today, Roman law and religion deserve our admiration because together they supported and consolidated the growing power of Rome (loc.cit.)

Similar books in the field:

Clifford - Rüpke: Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 2006