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Empress and Goddess: lulio-Claudian Women in the Imperial Cult [PDF]

, 2001
The worship of a mortal has long been an intriguing topic among scholars, The Roman imperial cult, which centered on the veneration of the emperor, exemplifies this phenomenon and its study has resulted in thousands of articles that attempt to explain ...
MacIver, Krista
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A double-voiced reading of Romans 13:1–7 in light of the imperial cult

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of double-voicedness and James Scott’s theory of public and hidden transcripts, this essay investigates the colonial context of Romans 13:1–7 with particular attention to the Roman imperial cult.
Sung U. Lim
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The Roman imperial cult

, 2021
Rimski carski kult formirao se pod utjecajem Istoka gdje je bilo uobičajeno iskazivati božanske počasti istaknutim pojedincima. Kult dobročinitelja i kult vladara, uz utjecaj privatne aristokratske religije na javnu rimsku religiju, rezultirali su ...
Jerčić, Magdalena
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Imperial College School of Medicine: A History of the Future

, 1998
A brief introduction to the long and distinguished history behind each of the institutions which came together in August 1997 to form the Imperial College School of ...
Barrett, Anne, Imperial College Archives
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Mysteria (Secret Cults) in the Bithynian City of Claudiopolis

Anadolu Araştırmaları
In Claudiopolis, mystery cult was already known through an inscription discovered in the village of Akçekavak, northeast of Bolu’s city centre. This article aims to present a new inscription, which further proves the existence of the mystery cult in ...
Meral Ortaç
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Per una prosopografia dei sacerdoti e delle sacerdotesse ateniesi in età imperiale: note preliminari

Axon, 2019
This paper offers an overview of an ongoing research project on priesthoods in Roman Athens, whose first purpose is to realise a prosopography of the Athenian cult personnel during the Roman imperial period (c. 27 BC-267 AD).
Camia, Francesco
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Roman Imperial Cult

, 2018
The Imperial Cult honored Roman emperors during lifetime and after death, both in Rome and in the provinces. The first emperor to receive an official deification was Augustus in 14 CE, although the deification of Julius Caesar, and the establishment of ...
Rodríguez, Gretel
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