Religion in Rural Late Antique Iberia

José Carlos López-Gómez is a research fellow at the University of Málaga and a member of the research group DINORAMA -Dynamism and Religious Innovation in the Ancient World-. His research focuses on the study of Roman polytheism and Christianization processes in the Iberian Peninsula during Late Antiquity.Antón Alvar Nuño is associate professor at the University of Málaga and a member of the research group DINORAMA -Dynamism and Religious Innovation in the Ancient World-. He has specialized in the study of ancient magic and subaltern religion in the late antique west from a bottom-up perspective.

• 1. Religion in Rural in Late Antique Iberia. An Introduction - José Carlos López-Gómez and Antón Alvar Nuño; 2. Spontaneous Worship or Control of Piety: Pilgrims of Proximity in Late Antique Hispania - Pablo C. Díaz Martínez; 3. Transhumance and Devotions: Shepherds and their Saints in a Rural Territory. A Case Study from Southern Italy (Gargano) - Laura Carnevale; 4. Servitude and Salvation: The Church in Rural Hispania - David Addison; 5. Christian Worship in Rural Hispania: Re-evaluating Archaeological Evidence on Oratories, Mausolea and Churches in Late Antique Villas - Alexandra Chavarría; 6. Cemeteries, Churches and other Religious Manifestations in the Late Roman and Visigothic Rural Environment of the Middle Ebro Valley: An Archaeological Approach - Pilar Diarte Blasco and Marta Pérez-Polo; 7. Sacrarium nullo paratu extrinsecus: The Slow Arrival of Christianity in the Lusitanian Countryside - André Carneiro, Mónica Rolo and Pedro Trapero Fernández; 8. Managing Death in Visigothic Iberia (6th–7th Centuries): Religious and Institutional Issues - Pablo Poveda-Arias; 9. The Ecclesiastical Criticism of Rural Priests in Hispania during Late Antiquity - Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez; 10. Pimenius and his Network: The Glocal Dimension of Rural Iberian Churches - Antón Alvar Nuño and José Carlos López-Gómez; 11. The Agenda of Saintmakers. The Case of the Vita Aemiliani in Visigothic Hispania - Santiago Castellanos; 12. Metaphorical Landscapes in Rural Hispania. The Transformation of religious Geographies in Visigothic Hagiography - Clelia Martínez Maza and Rocío Suárez Vallejo; 13. Exploring the Genealogy of “Rural Religion” between the Cult of “Nature” and Subaltern Religion. A History of Religions Perspective - Chiara Cremonesi.