Religious Mobility in the Roman Empire*

@article{Price2012ReligiousMI,
  title={Religious Mobility in the Roman Empire*},
  author={S. R. F. Price},
  journal={Journal of Roman Studies},
  year={2012},
  volume={102},
  pages={1 - 19}
}
  • S. Price
  • Published 16 July 2012
  • History
  • Journal of Roman Studies
Abstract The spread of religions throughout the Roman world may be explained partly as a consequence of the movements of peoples, partly in terms of the emergence of new elective cults. Understanding these processes entails exploring the kinds of contacts and exchanges established between individual worshippers, and the contexts — local and imperial — within which they took place. These developments culminated in the emergence of new cults that spilled over the boundaries of the Roman Empire to… 
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