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Assessing representations of the imperial cult in New Testament studies [PDF]
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2004 A distinct conceptualisation of the imperial cult is common in NT scholarship, in which worship of the emperor is portrayed as a foreign development which served primarily political aims, with little integrity and no serious religious significance ...
Pieter J J Botha
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Kejserkult i den romerske husstand
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1990 A recurrent statement in scholarship on the Roman imperial cult has been that the phenomenon was but a political expression of loyalty towards the emperor, involving little “truly religious” sentiment for the worshippers.
Ittai Gradel
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The Imperial Cult in Roman Religious Associations [PDF]
, 2014 The imperial cult was a local phenomenon. Religious colleges, like other social groups, included various forms of the emperor cult in the rituals they practised at their own discretion.
Wojciechowski, Przemysław
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Pallas, 2019 The modern notion of “imperial cult” is not mere appropriate to describe the diversity of rites created to worship the emperors throughout the empire : the official Roman cult, which was principally devoted to the Divi and to the Genius and the Numen of ...
Gabrielle Frija
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Religions, 2020 This article explores the role that local elites played in the development of the Mazu cult, a local goddess cult in Putian district in late imperial China. I argue that local elites were central in the promotion and transmission of the cult.
Yanchao Zhang
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The Beginning of the Imperial Cult in Hispania in the Augustan Era
Gerión, 2017 Contrary to the assertions which linked the beginnings of the imperial cult in Hispania to the influence of indigenous traditions, evidence of Augustan period stresses the role of Roman authority and, in particular, of military commanders, with the ...
Francisco Marco Simón
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Seleucos I and the Cult of Zeus Nikatôr
Electrum, 2023 In order to study the cult of Zeus Nikatôr, six Greek inscriptions (one from northern Syria and five from southern Anatolia) are gathered and commented.
Hadrien Bru
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The Liburnian Imperial Cult [PDF]
, 2008 Ključnu ulogu u širenju carskog kulta u Iliriku odigrao je Tiberijev namjesnik Publije Kornelije Dolabela, u čije je doba vjerojatno i organiziran liburnski pokrajinski carski kult ad aram Augusti Liburnorum.
Jadrić, Ivana, Miletić, Željko
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2021 The recent data related to the legend of St Anastasia in Byzantium require a fresh analysis of the mutually connected cults of Anastasia and Febronia in both the Christian East and West.
Basil Lourié
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Religions, 2019 Drawing from Stephan Feuchtwang’s influential notion of “imperial metaphor,” this article explores the role that the state played in the development of the Mazu cult in late imperial China.
Yanchao Zhang
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