{"product_id":"sensorivm-the-senses-in-roman-polytheism-9789004459731","title":"SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism explores how a range of cults and rituals were perceived and experienced by participants through one or more senses.    The present collection brings together papers from an international group of researchers all inspired by ‘the sensory turn’. Focusing on a wide range of ritual traditions from around the ancient Roman world, they explore the many ways in which smell and taste, sight and sound, separately and together, involved participants in religious performance. Music, incense, images and colors, contrasts of light and dark played as great a role as belief or observance in generating religious experience.    Together they contribute to an original understanding of the Roman sensory universe, and add an embodied perspective to the notion of Lived Ancient Religion.    Contributors are Martin Devecka; Visa Helenius; Yulia Ustinova; Attilio Mastrocinque; Maik Patzelt; Mark Bradley; Adeline Grand-Clément; Rocío Gordillo Hervás; Rebeca Rubio; Elena Muñiz Grijalvo; David Espinosa-Espinosa; A. César González-García, Marco V. García-Quintela; Jörg Rüpke; Rosa Sierra del Molino; Israel Campos Méndez; Valentino Gasparini; Nicole Belayche; Antón Alvar Nuño; Jaime Alvar Ezquerra; Clelia Martínez Maza.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Notes on Editors  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, and Greg Woolf    1 Faces of Death: Lucretius, Religio, and Vision at Rome   Martin Devecka    2 Lucretius and the Body-Environment Approach   Visa Helenius    3 Hirpi Sorani and Modern Fire-Walkers: Rejoicing through Pain in Extreme Rituals   Yulia Ustinova    4 Empowered Tongues   Attilio Mastrocinque    5 Favete linguis and the Experience of the Divine: A Cognitively Grounded Approach to Sensory Perception in Roman Religion   Maik Patzelt    6 The Triumph of the Senses: Sensory Awareness and the Divine in Roman Public Celebrations   Mark Bradley    7 Sensorium, Sensescapes, Synaesthesia, Multisensoriality: A New Way of Approaching Religious Experience in Antiquity?   Adeline Grand-Clément    8 Day and Night in the Agones of the Roman Isthmian Games   Rocío Gordillo Hervás    9 Multisensory Experiences in Mithraic Initiation   Rebeca Rubio    10 Imperial Mysteries and Religious Experience   Elena Muñiz Grijalvo    11 Pro consensu et concordia civium: Sensoriality, Imperial Cult, and Social Control in Augustan Urban Orientations   David Espinosa-Espinosa, A. César González-García, and Marco V. García-Quintela    12 Finding Religion in Reported Sensorial Experiences: A Case Study of Propertius 4.6   Jörg Rüpke    13 Sensory Experiences in the Cybelic Cult: Sound Stimulation through Musical Instruments   Rosa Sierra del Molino and Israel Campos Méndez    14 Isis’ Footprints: The Petrosomatoglyphs as Spatial Indicators of Human-Divine Encounters   Valentino Gasparini    15 Assiduo sono and furiosa tibia in Ovid’s Fasti: Music and Religious Identity in Narratives of Processions in the Roman World   Nicole Belayche    16 Total Sensory Experience in Isiac Cults: Mimesis, Alterity, and Identity   Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, and Clelia Martínez Maza    Index of Literary Sources (Beatriz Pañeda Murcia)  Index of Epigraphic and Papyrological Sources (Beatriz Pañeda Murcia)  General Index (Beatriz Pañeda Murcia)","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210819789143,"sku":"9789004459731","price":126.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sensorivm-the-senses-in-roman-polytheism-9789004459731","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}