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 …

Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length
study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods. Rask …

Anatomical votives are body part models, which were dedicated in thanks of, or in request
for, healing. In the ancient Greek context, such objects were prominently associated with the …

Mediating Buddhism wants to “simply” study what the entity named “Buddhism” is and how
to approach it. This leads to the following research questions:(1) What could be the starting …

In this article, we introduce a neurocognitive model as a useful analytical approach to a wide
range of representations (written, oral, and/or visual) of a comprehensive and dramatic …

This thesis focuses on amuletic objects in Italy and Sicily dating to between the third to the
seventh centuries CE. The words 'amulet'and 'amuletic'are used in the thesis to refer to a …