Archaeology and World Religion
Archaeology and World Religion

Author: Timothy Insoll

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1134597975

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Archaeology and World Religion is an important new work, being the first to examine these two vast topics together. The volume explores the relationship between, and the contribution archaeology can make to the study of 'World Religions'. The contributors consider a number of questions: * can religious (sacred) texts be treated as historical documents, or do they merit special treatment? * Does archaeology with its emphasis on material culture dispel notions of the ideal/divine? * Does the study of archaeology and religion lead to differing interpretations of the same event? * In what ways does the notion of a uniform religious identity exist and is this recognisable in the archaeological record? Clearly written and up-to-date, this volume will be an indispensable research tool for academics and specialists in these fields.

Archaeology, Ritual, Religion
Archaeology, Ritual, Religion

Author: Timothy Insoll

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-04

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 113452644X

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This book re-examines the definitions of 'religion' and 'ritual' through a range of archaeological examples drawn from around the world and across time. It serves as an introduction to the theory and methodology of the archaeology of religion

Archaeology of Religion
Archaeology of Religion

Author: Sharon R. Steadman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1315433885

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This texbook shows how archaeology interprets past religions including case studies from around the world, describing religious practices of both foragers and ancient complex socities

Archaeology and World Religion
Archaeology and World Religion

Author: Timothy Insoll

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1134597983

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This is the first text to consider the subjects of religion and archaeology in conjunction with each other. It explores the relationship between, and the contribution archaeology can make to the study of world religions.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

Author: Timothy Insoll

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 1135

ISBN-13: 019923244X

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A comprehensive overview, by period and region, of the archaeology of ritual and religion. The coverage is global, and extends from the earliest prehistory to modern times. Written by over sixty renowned specialists, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will also stimulate further research.

Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic

Author: C. Riley Augé

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-07-08

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1800735049

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By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines. Instruction and templates for recording, typologizing, classifying, and analyzing ritual or magico-religious material culture are also provided to guide researchers in the survey, collection, and cataloging processes. The bulleted formatting and topical range make this a highly accessible work, while providing an incredible wealth of information in a single volume.

Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel
Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel

Author: Beth Alpert Nakhai

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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Annotation This book discusses the role of religion in Canaanite and Israelite society, from the Middle Bronze Age through the Israelite Divided Monarchy (2000-587 BC). It contains an extensive archaeological study of all known Middle Bronze through Iron Age temples, sanctuaries, and open-air shrines, organized by period and geographic region. Social science and textually based analyses of sacrifice in antiquity reveal the many ways in which religion was related to social structure, and the author emphasizes the ways in which social, economic and political relationships determined - and were shaped by - forms of religious organization.

A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World
A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World

Author: Rubina Raja

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 1444350005

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A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world. • Features readings that focus on religious experience and expression in the ancient world rather than solely on religious belief • Places a strong emphasis on domestic and individual religious practice • Represents the first time that the concept of “lived religion” is applied to the ancient history of religion and archaeology of religion • Includes cutting-edge data taken from top contemporary researchers and theorists in the field • Examines a large variety of themes and religious traditions across a wide geographical area and chronological span • Written to appeal equally to archaeologists and historians of religion

The Archaeology of Religious Hatred
The Archaeology of Religious Hatred

Author: Eberhard Sauer

Publisher: Tempus Publishing Limited

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Sauer explores how destruction and pressure was used in the late Roman period and in the early Middle Ages to achieve for Christianity what persuiasion alone could not attain.

An Archaeology of the Cosmos
An Archaeology of the Cosmos

Author: Timothy R. Pauketat

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0415521289

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An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of humanity: religious beliefs. Why do so many people believe in supreme beings and holy spirits? The second question concerns changes in those beliefs. What causes beliefs to change? Using archaeological evidence gathered from ancient America, especially case material from the Great Plains and the pre-Columbian American Indian city of Cahokia, Timothy Pauketat explores the logical consequences of these two fundamental questions. Religious beliefs are not more resilient than other aspects of culture and society, and people are not the only causes of historical change. An Archaeology of the Cosmos examines the intimate association of agency and religion by studying how relationships between people, places, and things were bundled together and positioned in ways that constituted the fields of human experience. This rethinking theories of agency and religion provides readers with challenging and thought provoking conclusions that will lead them to reassess the way they approach the past.