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Augustus Polonus. The Image of the Emperor in Polish Historiography in Inter-War Period. Preliminary Remarks [PDF]

, 2016
The figure of the first Roman emperor in many ways had an impact on the Polish culture, especially in historiography and literature. In my paper I focus on some issues connected with the subject. I discuss the ideas presented by Tadeusz Zieliński, one of
Gillmeister, Andrzej
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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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Assessing representations of the imperial cult in New Testament studies

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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Cultes impériaux et pouvoir impérial : diffusion et circulation des cultes des empereurs dans le monde romain

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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The Local Promotion of Mazu: The Intersection of Lineage, Textual Representation, Confucian Values, and Temples in Late Imperial China

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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Buildings or Festivals? [PDF]

, 2018
Marco Vitale ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Alter Geschichte (Epigraphie, Numismatik) in Basel und Zürich. Er wurde 2010 promoviert mit einer Untersuchung zur Verwaltung der hellenistischen und römischen Asia Minor (Eparchie und Koinon).
Vitale, Marco
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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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Ruler Portraits and Ruler Cult in the Pergamon Gymnasion [PDF]

, 2018
Zu Bildnisstatuen attalidischer Könige im Gymnasion von Pergamon besitzen wir vielfältige archäologische und epigraphische Zeugnisse. Systematisch wurden aber die Zusammenhängedieser unterschiedlichen Zeugnisgruppen bisher nicht untersucht.
Hoff, Ralf von den
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Judean Pillar Figurines and Ethnic Identity in the Shadow of Assyria [PDF]

, 2012
An examination of Judean Pillar Figurines in relation to cultural discourse and identity construction in the late Iron-Age ...
Ian Wilson
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