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Author:   Ralph Haeussler ,  Anthony King
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
ISBN:  

9781789259650

ISBN 10:   1789259657
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   15 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of figures List of tables Contributors 1. Introduction: the dynamics of religious individualisation Ralph Haeussler, Anthony King, Francisco Marco Simón and Günther Schörner 2. Religious individualisation: a bottom-up approach to religious developments in the Roman world Ralph Haeussler 3. Discrepant behaviour: on magical activities in the Latin West Francisco Marco Simón 4. Individual religious choice: the case of the ‘mystery’ cults Jaime Alvar Ezquerra 5. Sons and mothers: the matres, the military and religious choice in Roman Britain Elizabeth Blanning 6. Pre-Roman deities along the north-eastern Adriatic: continuity, transformation, identification Marjeta Šašel Kos 7. Private devotions at temples in Central and Eastern Gaul Isabelle Fauduet 8. Tradition, diversity and improvisation in Romano-British cremation burials in south-east England Jake Weekes 9. Individual choices in burial ritual and cult activity in and around the Iron Age and Romano-British town of Baldock, Hertfordshire, UK Gilbert R. Burleigh 10. Religious individualisation in extremis: human remains from Romano-Celtic temples in Britain and Gaul Anthony King 11. Indigenous arae and stelae: symbolic landscapes and individualisation in north-west Roman Hispania Fernando Alonso Burgos 12. Indigenism and identity shaping: the case of the Irrico group in Central Spain Jesús Alberto Arenas-Esteban 13. The religious construction of ‘household’ in Roman Italy: the case of the Casa dei Vettii Günther Schörner 14. Types of Interpretatio and their users in the Keltiké: explicationes and translationes vs. identificationes and adaptationes Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel 15. Religious individualisation in an entangled world: how to pick and mix favourite deities in the Roman Keltiké Ralph Haeussler

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Ralph Haeussler is a research fellow at Winchester University. Having completed his PhD at University College London in 1997, he taught at the universities of Oxford, Osnabrück and Lampeter. He is a specialist in ancient religions, cultural interactions and ‘globalisation’. Antony King is Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology at Winchester University. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Archaeology, London, in 1985 and is a specialist for Romano-Celtic temples and religion, Roman villas, Samian ware and animal bones.

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