Maik Patzelt/Annette Weissenrieder
: Prayer and the ancient city: influences of urban space. An introduction
I. Urban theoretical framework
Emiliano R. Urciuoli/Jörg Rüpke:
Religion and the urban: historical developments
II. The intrinsic logic of the city: the mutuality of urban space and prayer
Yair Lipshitz:
Ancient legacies, modern reactivations: urban space and the praying body in artistic performance in Jerusalem -
Catherine Hezser:
Caesarea Maritima, Greek prayer, and rabbinic Judaism -
Gerard Rouwhorst:
The formation of a Christian liturgical prayer tradition in the fourth and fifth centuries in a predominantly urban environment -
Maik Patzelt:
The creative potential of urban space: an urban approach to the prayers of the marginalised urban dwellers of Rome -
Alexander Sokolicek:
Toward a topography of the sacred in urban space: places of religious performance at Ephesos -
Valentino Gasparini:
Urban religion and risk-management at Simitthus (Chemtou, Tunisia)
III. The power of imagined spaces: challenging and producing spatial routines of prayer
Ute Hüsken:
The urban life of South Indian gods -
Jan R. Stenger:
Re-educating spatial habits: John Chrysostom on the production and transformation of urban space -
Florian Wöller:
The city as 'colonnades' and 'monastery': Libanius and John Chrysostom on Antiochene street processions -
Harry O. Maier:
The prayer of 1 Clement, mutual urban formations, and the urban aspirations of Roman Christ believers -
Hekmat Dirbas:
Communal prayer in an early Muslim city: Medina during the prophet's time -
Annette Weissenrieder:
Pater Sancte: the father appellation and the imaginaires of Jerusalem in the Vetus Latina Luke 11:2
IV. The representation of the city in the discourses about prayer
Barbara Schmitz:
Urban spaces and prayer in the book of Judith -
Nadine Ueberschaer:
The transcending of the temple city to the kingdom of god and its consequences for the practice of prayer -
Stefan Schorch:
Praying in the countryside: Samaritanism as an anti-urban religion -
Cornelia B. Horn:
Prayer at the threshold of the city in the
Lives
of Rabbula and Barsauma: placing a late antique bishop and a monk in spiritual and spatial perspectives
