Senses Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 25 January 2024

Explores how the senses shaped the way the Romans perceived, understood, and remembered ritual experiences.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 25 January 2024

How do the senses shape the way we perceive, understand, and remember ritual experiences? This book applies cognitive and sensory approaches to Roman rituals, reconnecting readers with religious experiences as

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 11 August 2022

Explores the religious rituals and beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome, using modern research into human cognition to better understand the experiences of men and women. Integrates literary, epigraphic, visual

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 09 November 2020

This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused human and more-than-human things

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 31 May 2021

SENSORIVM publishes the first results of a collective investigation into how Roman rituals smelled, sounded, felt and struck the eye. It brings Roman religious experience into the realm of the

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 26 February 2015

Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations – ideas, beliefs,

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 15 June 2023

Advancing our understanding of one of the most influential 20th-century philosophers, Robert Vinten brings together an international line up of scholars to consider the relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's ideas to

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 24 February 2017

The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific aspects of human behaviour, this

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 02 November 2017

The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach is the first full cognitive history of an ancient religion. In this groundbreaking book on one of the most intriguing and mysterious ancient

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 29 October 2020

Reconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual's cosmological links.