Religious World of Late Antiquity

Call For Papers: The Religious World of Late Antiquity Group seeks paper proposals for panels on the two following themes: (1) "Corpses that Matter": What societies do with dead bodies expresses more about the living than the dead. In this session we seek papers exploring how religious communities of late antiquity expressed, negotiated, and/or contested religious identities through the rituals and discourses surrounding the treatment of human corpses. (2) "Angels and Demons Among Us": Though it is often the judgment of the observer whether it is angelic or demonic in origin, the experience of an indwelling visitor is often reported in the worlds religions. Such visitations may have dramatic effects not only on the medium of the visitation but on his or her larger society, depending on how widely the visitation is accepted as legitimate. In this session we seek papers dealing with the personal and/or political consequences of such claims in the religious worlds of Late Antiquity.

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