Greco-Roman Religions

Call For Papers: The open session of the Greco-Roman Religions Section, "Hybridization and Creolization in the Greek and Roman Worlds," invites papers that continue it’s focus on post-colonial criticism applied to the ancient Mediterranean world, especially papers exploring issues of hybridization and creolization raised by social mobility and consequent encounters with new cult communities, new customs and cultic practices, and the reciprocal negotiations of place and identity generated between the affected groups. This open session welcomes papers that approach these phenomena on the basis of literary, epigraphical, or archaeological evidence, and from the full range of methodological perspectives, exploring the ways cult practices functioned and evolved within the complex and fluid ancient Mediterranean socio-cultural environment. This session especially invites papers that explore critically specific applications of analytical terms such as "bricoleur/bricolage," that problematize dualisms and perceived hegemonies, and that critically examine concepts such as “agency” or “identity.” The Greco-Roman Religions Section closed session, "Redescribing Greco-Roman Antiquity: Comparative Cult Migration Studies—Fluid Social Formations, Ephemeral Identities, and Traditions in the Making," will present papers exploring the phenomenon of cult migration, with special attention given to the operative terms "comparative" and "studies." Both terms imply a stance from beyond the purely decriptive to a theoretical perspective on cult formation, identity formation, and the social and ideological nature of religious discourse. Particular attention will be paid to the discursive nature of imagined religious identities and social formations as fluid traditions that allowed for-and even unintentionally invited-multiple imagined synchronic as well as successive identities.

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