Citifying Jesus

Name: Citifying Jesus | The Making of an Urban Religion in the Roman Empire
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The Making of an Urban Religion in the Roman Empire

Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli(Autor*in)

Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)

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Erschienen im August 2024

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Cover
Title
Acknowledgments
Contents
Citification of Religion: Studying Urban Religion Historically
1. An Urban Turn to "Lived Ancient Religion"
2. Integration and Differentiation: Urbanization via Religion
2.1. Worshipping and Settling Down: Religion at the Dawn of Urbanism
2.2. In the Wake of Fustel de Coulanges: Religion and the Making of Citizens
3. Another Story, A Different Concept: Citification of Religion
3.1. Spatializing "Lived Religion" Within, Beyond, and After the Polis
3.2. Citification as Aspiration
3.3. Citification as Adaptation (and Appropriation)
3.4. Citification of Religion: A Definition
4. Citifying Jesus: Christ Religion as a Case Study
4.1. Between Empire and Countryside: Revising the "Urban Thesis"
4.2. Neither Global Nor Local: Beyond the "City-by-City" Approach
4.3. No Exit from the Urban
4.4. Citifying Jesus in a Rural Empire
4.4.1. A Biased Dataset
4.4.2. An Ideal Subject
4.5. Nine Trajectories of Citification: Overview of Chapters
I. Jumping Among the Temples: Against the Polytheists'"Spatial Fix"
1. Gluing Gods to Places: From Carthage to Çatalhöyük and Back
2. Religion and the "Spatial Fix"
3. No Rescue in the Fix: The Critical Sacred Geography of the Early Christians
3.1. Immaterial Religion
3.2. Good and Evil Investments
3.3. Starving the (Urban Religious) Beast
3.4. A Nonsense Parceling Out of Space
4. Conclusion: Jumping Among the Basilicas
II. An Archetypal Blasé? Justin Martyr, the Metropolitan Man, and the Segmentation of Urban Life
1. Plunging Simmel into the Mediterranean World
2. Coping with Rome: The Mental Life of Justin of Neapolis
2.1. How Did the Metropolis Affect Justin as a Christ Believer?
2.2. How Did the Metropolis Affect Justin as a Teacher?
2.3. How Did the Metropolis Affect Justin as a Heresiologist?
3. Conclusion: A Second-Century Blasé?
III. (Good) People Next Door: Christ Religion in the Neighborhood
1. Beyond Households and Associations: A Neighborhood-Focused Analysis of Christ Religion
2. Neighboring Christians and Christian Neighboring: Imagining a Way Forward
2.1. Who Is My Neighbor? Samaritans, Emperors, and the Fellows Next Door
2.2. "What Have the Christians Ever Done for Us?" The Advantages of Having a Neighboring ?????s?a
2.3. From Passive to Active Proximity: The Spatial Circumstances of Christians' Prosociality
2.3.1. Caretakers in Times Ordinary and Extraordinary
2.3.2. Bankrupting the Butchers: Impact on the Local Economy
2.4. A Hand-to-Hand Combat: Neighborhood-Scale Opposition to Christians
3. Conclusion: Ambivalent Theatres of Everyday Life
IV. The Poverty Plateau: The Space of the Urban Street Poor
1. Street Poverty in the Urban Mille-Feuille: "Co-Spatiality" Along a Roman Via
2. Thick Streets: When a Priest Meets a Beggar
3. Peeling and Leveling the Street: Early Christian Gazes upon Street Poverty
3.1. "Is This Not the Man Who Used to Sit and Beg?"
3.2. The Idealization of Poverty and the "Spaceless" Poor
3.3. The Promotion of Centralized Almsgiving: The Beggar Comes Last
4. Conclusion: Return of the Lepers and Spectacularization of Poverty
V. Urban/e Distances: Secrecy, Discretion, and a Religious Guide to Urbanity
1. Theorizing and Unpacking Secrecy in the Ancient Mediterranean City
2. To Diognetus: An Urban Reading
2.1. An Elusive Script
2.2. An Evasive Author
2.3. A Paradoxical Citizenship
2.4. A Distinct (and Usable) Urbanity
2.5. Being a Nobody in the Eyes of Many: When Differentness Turns into Deviance
3. Conclusion: Urbanity as a Decision on the Un-Seen and the Un-Known
VI. Smyrnean Detours: The Martyrdom of Polycarp as Urban Religious Event
1. An Urban Reading of Ancient Christian Martyrdom
2. Cities of the Living: Situationists and the City
3. Martyrdom of Polycarp Revisited
3.1. A Transformed Cartography of Smyrna
3.2. A Quintessentially Urban Event
3.3. A Christian Guide to Détournement
4. Conclusion: Copycat Martyrdoms and Fractured Citizenries
VII. Leading by Writing: Cyprian's Management of a Heterarchical Crisis
1. Christian Urban Religious Intellectualism: Theory and Context
2. Urban Heterarchies and Heterarchical Christ Groups
3. When Intellectualism Confronts Heterarchy: The Case of Cyprian of Carthage
3.1. A Heterarchical Shock
3.2. A Fragile House of Cards: Cyprian's Intellectualist Church Order
3.3. Intellectualism Backfired: From Fluid Power Relations to Discrete Hierarchies
4. Conclusion: Urban Religious Agency Between Freelancing and Ruling
VIII. Time to Build: Christians' "Right to the City" Between Dura and Tyre
1. "Let Us See," "Look at Me": Visibility as Urban Achievement
2. Coming Out as Christians at Dura: Urban Rumor/s of a Christian Restyling
2.1. A Street Full of Gods
2.2. Learning from Neighbors, Beautifying the House, Inflicting Visibility
3. The Church of Tyre: Spatial Pride, Visual Revenge, and a "Right to the City"
3.1. Talking Stones: Achievement and Architecture
3.2. Bringing Lefebvre to Tyre: Historicizing the Right to the City
4. Conclusion: From Confidence to Providence
IX. A Tale of No Cities: Searching for Urbanity and Urban Religion in Augustine's City of God
1. Reading Augustine in the "Epoch of Space"
2. Writing Cities Un-Spatially
2.1. Missing "the Urban"
2.2. Between Cicero and the Bible: Two Definitions of Civitas
2.3. A Methodical Leveling of Spatial Forms
3. Urban Religion in the City of God
3.1. The Challenge of an Urban Religion Approach to the City of God
3.2. Hampering the Fame, Spreading the Voice: Miracles, Cult Relics,and Urban Religion
3.3. Crumbling Up the Divine: Polytheism and Urban Religion (Again)
3.4. Theatrum vero Ubi Est nisi in Urbe? Spectacles and Urban Religion
4. Conclusion: The Sabbatical Civitas Dei as a "Non-City"
Recaps, Clarifications, Confessions, and Disclaimers: The Religion of Urban Religion
List of First Publications
References
Index of Sources
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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