The choice of location of a sanctuary was mainly dependent on its sacred
\ngeomancy, for instance recognized through an augurium during the
\nRoman period. However, in dense and crowded places such as a city, there
\nwere also other needs and requirements that had to be respected, such as
\nurban topography, infrastructure and accessibility, as well as policy,
\neconomy, local legislation, or even traditions. Establishing a place for
\nreligious communication, be it a sanctuary, a grave or the erection of a
\ndedication for a deity therefore had to be some kind of a negotiation
\nbetween the religious communicator and the physical and non-physical
\npre-existing environment.
\nHowever, even in antiquity the establishment of places of religious
\ncommunication in dense and diversely crowded cities cannot have been
\ntaken place as mere top-down processes decided only by elite, ruling
\nactors without taking any significant and urban-related factors into
\naccount. I argue that the decision-making process, when creating a place
\nfor religious communication, is an interplay of spaces, objects, actors,
\npractices and imagination (which is aspirations and semantics) that lead
\ninvoluntarily to reciprocal formations.
\nThis paper is a first attempt to describe the term \u201cplacemaking\u201d, which
\nderives from the disciplines of urban planning and geography, in order to
\nelucidate its advantages and disadvantages for the research of ancient
\ncities and religions. I would like to apply the term and specify it as the
\nconcept of Religious Ancient Placemaking. In this paper I will introduce
\na first sketch of my understanding of the theoretical framework of the
\nconcept, which shall be part of my habilitation project.
\nMy plan for the second book is firstly to develop the concept and make it
\nsuitable for the discipline of archaeology, then secondly enrich it with
\nexamples from the ancient city of Rome \u2013 because it is an exceptional city
\nthat provides a plethora of material and written sources and therefore
\nguarantees a qualitative broad variety of phenomena \u2013 and then thirdly try
\nto apply the conceptual framework on a specific case study, which will be
\nthe Provincia Hispania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The choice of location of a sanctuary was mainly dependent on its sacred geomancy, for instance recognized through an augurium during the Roman period. However, in dense and crowded places such as a city, there were also other needs and requirements that had to be respected, such as urban topography, infrastructure and accessibility, as well … „Asuman L\u00e4tzer-Lasar is going to present a working paper on ‚Religious Ancient Placemaking \u2013 first draft of a conceptual framework‘“ <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[182,179,181,183,180],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}