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Synopsis

This volume is a first attempt to investigate the impact of urban space on prayers and related religious thought and belief in ancient religions from the first to the sixth century CE. Taking its lead from the spatial turn in scholarship, methodologically it is an attempt to replace the hitherto customary focus on the forms and semantics of prayer with an urban-spatial model. This model understands prayers as performances that are embedded and embodied in urban space as well as texts producing and inspired by imaginations of space. To allow for a broader comparison, this volume covers prayers and spaces of various religions all over the ancient Mediterranean, from Roman and North African polytheisms through early Christianity to Byzantine Christianity and early Islam.

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À propos des auteurs

Geboren 1962; 1989 Dr. phil. in Tübingen, 1994 Habilitation in Tübingen, 2021 in Graz und 2025 in Aarhus Ehrendoktorwürde (Dr. h.c. mult.); Professor für Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft und stellvertretender Direktor des Max-Weber-Kollegs für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien an der Universität Erfurt.

is Professor of New Testament Theology and Exegesis and leads the Corpus Hellenisticum Institute at the Martin-Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg.

Born 1987; lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany.

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