The first three centuries AD saw the spread of new religious ideas through the Roman Empire, crossing a vast and diverse geographical, social and cultural space. In this innovative study, Anna Collar explores both how this happened and why. Drawing on research in the sociology and anthropology of religion, physics and computer science, Collar explores the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to explore why some religious movements succeed, while others, seemingly equally successful at a certain time, ultimately fail. Using extensive epigraphic data, Collar provides new interpretations of the diffusion of ideas across the social networks of the Jewish Diaspora and the cults of Jupiter Dolichenus and Theos Hypsistos...
The domination of Etruria by Rome is an aspect of Roman colonization which is generally well underst...
Over the period in which the ancient Roman empire grew to its greatest extent, religion in the provi...
This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal ex...
Why do some religious movements succeed and spread, while others, seemingly equally popular and succ...
Why do some religious movements succeed and spread, while others, seemingly equally popular and succ...
The emergence during the Roman Empire of new religious forms and groups alongside the collective cul...
How useful is the concept of "network" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? U...
This thesis studies the religious system of the city of Rome and its immediate hinterland from the e...
Christianity emerged as a small and marginal movement in the first century Palestine and throughout ...
Christianity emerged as a small and marginal movement in the first century Palestine and throughout ...
During the first and second centuries of the Common Era the Christ cult spread from rural Palestine ...
Christianity emerged as a small and marginal movement in the first century Palestine and throughout ...
Between the first and fourth centuries C.E. networks of like-minded individuals who shared certain r...
Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 63-84.Volume 1. Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Tracing...
The late Hellenistic period is a time of deep entanglement, interconnectedness and complexity. The b...
The domination of Etruria by Rome is an aspect of Roman colonization which is generally well underst...
Over the period in which the ancient Roman empire grew to its greatest extent, religion in the provi...
This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal ex...
Why do some religious movements succeed and spread, while others, seemingly equally popular and succ...
Why do some religious movements succeed and spread, while others, seemingly equally popular and succ...
The emergence during the Roman Empire of new religious forms and groups alongside the collective cul...
How useful is the concept of "network" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? U...
This thesis studies the religious system of the city of Rome and its immediate hinterland from the e...
Christianity emerged as a small and marginal movement in the first century Palestine and throughout ...
Christianity emerged as a small and marginal movement in the first century Palestine and throughout ...
During the first and second centuries of the Common Era the Christ cult spread from rural Palestine ...
Christianity emerged as a small and marginal movement in the first century Palestine and throughout ...
Between the first and fourth centuries C.E. networks of like-minded individuals who shared certain r...
Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 63-84.Volume 1. Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Tracing...
The late Hellenistic period is a time of deep entanglement, interconnectedness and complexity. The b...
The domination of Etruria by Rome is an aspect of Roman colonization which is generally well underst...
Over the period in which the ancient Roman empire grew to its greatest extent, religion in the provi...
This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal ex...