Del 0 - Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religions

Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods

Conversations in Theory and Method

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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The studies in this volume share a focus on religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: how ritual, myth, spectatorship, and travel reflect the continual interaction of human beings with the richly fictive beings who defined the boundaries of groups, access to the past, and mobility across land and seascapes.They share as well the methodological exploration of the intersection between human sciences, the integration of numerous disciplines around the study of all aspects of human life from the biological to the cultural, and the study of the past. In so doing, they continue a long dialogue that engages with critical models derived from specializations within history, philology, archaeology, sociology, and anthropology, and addresses, increasingly, the potentialities and pitfalls of quantitative and digital analyses. Many of the threads in this long conversation inform these chapters: the comparative project, human social evolution, disciplinary reflexivity, religion as an embedded, functional, and structural system, and the role for agency, networks, and materiality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-03-31
Mått152 x 228 x 28 mm
Vikt185 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Antal sidor300
FörlagLockwood Press
ISBN9781948488518

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Introduction. New Sciences and Old Gods: A Brief History of the Human Sciences and Ancient Religion (Sandra Blakely, Megan Daniels)Ritualizing Relations in Early Iron Age Greece: Feasting in Extraurban Sanctuaries (Megan Daniels)Harnessing the Gods: Big Gods Theory and Moral Supervision in the Greek World (Jennifer Larson)Festival Souvenirs from Roman Cologne: Connectivity, Memory, and Conceptions of Time (Maggie Popkin)Roman Strategies of Ritualization and the Performance of the Pompa Circensis (Jacob Latham)Nearness and Experience in a Network of Roman Amphitheaters (Sebastian Heath)Reflexivity and Digital Praxis: Reconstructing Ostia’s Social Networks (Lindsey A. Mazurek, Kathryn A. Langenfeld, R. Benjamin Gorham)The Landscape of Early Greek Religion: GIS , Big Data, and the Complexity of the Archaeological Record (Sarah Murray)Quantifying Thick Descriptions with the Database of Religious History (M. Willis Monroe)The Reign of Janus: Signs, Data Science, and Image Worlds in Third- Century BCE Italy (Dan-el Padilla Peralta)Agency, Affect, Games, and Gods: Archaeogaming and the Archaeology of Religion (Sandra Blakely)Epilogue. Ancient Religion and Modern Science: A Coevolution (Ian Rutherford)Indexes

[The book’s] novelty in discussing jointly the main recent methodological approaches from a theoretical and analytical perspective in the ancient Mediterranean stands out. It is a first volume that brings together anthropological models, CSR [cognitive science of religion], ESR [evolutionary science of religion], and analytical digital approaches. [ . . . ] It shows that research projects on ancient religion often [ . . . ] deal with data and the agency of individuals integrated into a social-construct environment and physical space. The volume also urges the creation of a standard system of categories (ontologies) and more comprehensive cross-disciplinary digital big-data projects and discussions specifically addressing ancient religions.Francesca Mazzilli, University of Bari Aldo Moro, in Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades, 23, 2025 [487-497]