Supplication in the Greco-Roman Religious Field
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https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v41i1.006Keywords:
Pierre Bourdieu, Supplication, GreekAbstract
This essay attempts to apply Bourdieu's notion of the field to the study of Greco-Roman religion (a move that Bourdieu himself seemingly ruled out). It traces some changes in the Greco-Roman religious field by tracking the meaning and fortunes of the practice of supplication, first in the context of the struggle between Roman administration and Greek autonomy and then in the context of the struggle between pagans and Christians to define charity to the poor as a strategy of legitimation.
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Bourdieu, Pierre. 1998 [1994]. Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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———. 1990 [1980]. The Logic of Practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Stanford: Stanford University Press
.———. 1988 [1984]. Homo Academicus. Translated by Peter Collier. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
———. 1984 [1979]. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Translated by Peter Collier. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
———. 1977[1972]. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Bremmer, Jan. 1999. Greek Religion.Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics 24. Cambridge: The Classical Association.
Brown, Peter. 2002. Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Burkert, Walter. 1985. Greek Religion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Chin, Catherine M. 2008. Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Dignas, Beate. 2002. Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Ducloux, Anne. 1994. Ad ecclesiam confugere: naissance du droit d’asile dans les églises (IVe-milieu du Ves.). Paris: De Boccard.
Freyburger, Gérard. 1988. “Supplication grecque et supplication romaine.” Latomus 47: 501–25.
Gamauf, Richard. 1999. “Ad statuam licet confugere”: Untersuchungen zum Asylrecht im römischen Principat .Wiener Studien zu Geschichte, Recht und Gesellschaft 1. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang.
Gottesman, Alex. 2006, “A Branch on the Altar: Supplication and Symbolic Capital in Ancient Greece.” PhD diss., University of Chicago.
Gould, John. 1973. “Hiketeia.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 93: 74–103.
Holman, Susan R. 2001. The Hungry are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kontorine, V. 1989. “Psêphisma me kanonismo gia tou hiketes.” In Anekdotes Epigraphes Rodou II. Edited by Vass. Kontorine, 17–29. Athens: Institouto tou Vivliou—M. Kardamitsa
MacMullen, Ramsey. 2000. Romanization in the Time of Augustus. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Naiden, Fred S. 2006. Ancient Supplication. New York: Oxford University Press.
Parkin, Anneliese 2006. “‘You do him no Service’: An Exploration of Pagan Almsgiving.” In Poverty in the Roman World, edited by M. Atkins and R. Osborne, 60–82. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Patlagean, Evelyn. 1977. Pauvreté économique et pauvreté sociale à Byzance: 4e-7e siècles. Paris: Mouton.
Rey, Terry. 2007. Bourdieu on Religion: Imposing Faith and Legitimacy. London: Equinox.
Rigsby, Kent J. 2000. “A Suppliant at Gerasa.” Phoenix 54: 99–106.
———. 1996. Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World. Hellenistic Culture and Society 22. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Sandwell, Isabella. 2007. Religious Identity in Late Antiquity: Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Swartz, David. 1997. Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
———. 1996. “Bridging the Study of Culture and Religion: Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Symbolic Power.” Sociology of Religion 57: 71–85.
Veyne, Paul. 1990 [1976]. Bread and Circuses: Historical Sociology and Political Pluralism. Translated by Brian Pearce. London: Allen Lane.
Woolf, Greg. 1998. Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel. 1998. “Supplication and Request: Application by Foreigners to the Athenian Polis.” Mnemosyne 51: 554–73.
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2012-03-01
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Gottesman, A. (2012). Supplication in the Greco-Roman Religious Field. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 41(1), 25-32. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v41i1.006
