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The archaeology of ancient cult: from foundation deposits to religion in Roman Mithraism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

Matthew M. McCarty ,
Mariana Egri  and
Aurel Rustoiu
Matthew M. McCarty
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, [email protected]
Mariana Egri
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, [email protected]
Aurel Rustoiu
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, [email protected]
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In the past two decades, the “archaeology of religion” has moved from the margins of scholarship to the center, led by the growth of postprocessual archaeological hermeneutics. 1 Such theoretical frames – whether the materiality of religion, objects as agents, the entanglement of humans and objects, or “thing theory” – demonstrate the centrality of the physical world and its archaeological correlates to religion. They offer new ways of posing questions about the construction of meanings for worshippers through materials.2

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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 32 , 2019 , pp. 279 - 312
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Copyright © Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C. 2019 

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