JORG RUPKE

O livro Religião urbana: uma abordagem histórica demonstra como as mudanças importantes da religião podem ser mais bem compreendidas como resultado da dialética dos imaginários da cidade e da religiã

Warfare is one of the defining elements that drove the development of the city of Rome from a small territory into a Mediterranean Empire. Religion is identified as having played an important part in this. Never done before, this e-book undertakes a survey of all rituals, and religious institutions in a broader sense, along with discourses related to peace and warfare. Priests and senators, generals and soldiers, men and women are acknowledged as agents with very different competencies, interests, and experiences, but also different opportunities to leave material traces or textual reflections of their activities. Throughout, the author pays attention to developments in time as well as space. He seeks to reconstruct the religious construction of peace and war at Rome as a tool and an attitude caught up in a process of change. The e-book persists in addressing the ways in which specific religious concepts might further or impede the pursuit of power and obedience to power, sharpen or mitigate internal competition, be conducive or not to the integration of allied powers, without ever claiming to "explain" military success or expansion.

Con este libro, ambicioso y documentado, J¶rg Rüpke nos entrega una narración histórica, completa, sorprendente y original, de la religión antigua romana y mediterránea que abarca más de un milenio, desde la edad del Bronce tardía hasta la Antigüedad tardía pasando por la Roma imperial. Esta obra se caracteriza también por su énfasis singular en la religión vivida, una perspectiva que destaca cómo las prácticas y las experiencias individuales transforman la religión en algo muy diferente de su aspecto oficial. El resultado es un cuadro radicalmente novedoso tanto de la religión romana como de un periodo crucial de la religión occidental, un periodo decisivo que influyó en el judaísmo, el cristianismo, el islam e incluso en el concepto moderno de religión.