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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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Imperial cult and dinastic fidelity: Agrippa and Lesbos island

Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2013
We point out the part of M. Agrippa for the implantation and the spread of the imperial Cult in the eastern part of the Empire, and his relation with the ancient institutions of worship and the local oligarchies what provides the priests, thanks mainly ...
Jean-Michel RODDAZ
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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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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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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 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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Five Anastasiae and Two Febroniae: A Guided Tour in the Maze of Anastasia Legends. Part One. The Oriental Dossier

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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Les cultes privés chez les Romains (iiie s. avant – iiie s. après J.-C.)

Pallas, 2019
To talk about domestic cults seems more appropriate than to talk about private cults, since most of the non-public religious acts take place around the domestic hearth, under the pater familias’ direction.
Marie-Odile Charles-Laforge
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The Lion Against the Eagle: A Critical Appraisal of the Anti-Imperial Reading of Paul

Collectanea Theologica, 2023
The article presents a synthetic analysis of empire criticism in Pauline letters, beginning with the omnipresence and character of imperial cult in Paul’s time.
Marcin Kowalski
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