Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli publishes habilitation thesis: Citifying Jesus
Citifying Jesus: The Making of an Urban Religion in the Roman Empire
2024, 309 pages. €139.00
ISBN 978-3-16-162371-4
ISBN 978-3-16-163747-6
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-163747-6
Religion and urban life are the most successful strategies of handling, enhancing, and capitalizing on human sociability. By integrating religious studies, archaeology, and spatial theory, Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli aims to re-describe the formation of Christ religion as urban religion. Spanning almost four centuries of Christian literature from Paul to Augustine, the author shows that several characteristics commonly attributed to Christ religion are, in fact, outcomes of the distinct ways in which religious agents enact urbanity and interact with the urban space. The study brings the urbanity of religious agents into focus, shedding light on significant elements of religious transformation, innovation, institutionalization, empowerment, and resistance to power. Simultaneously, it explores the key urban features that shaped the emergence and development of Christ religion
Table of contents: Citification of Religion: Studying Urban Religion Historically
I. Jumping Among the Temples: Against the Polytheists’ »Spatial Fix«
II. An Archetypal Blasé? Justin Martyr, the Metropolitan Man, and the Segmentation of Urban Life
III. (Good) People Next Door: Christ Religion in the Neighborhood
IV. The Poverty Plateau: The Space of the Urban Street Poor
V. Urban/e Distances: Secrecy, Discretion, and a Religious Guide to Urbanity
VI. Smyrnean Detours: The Martyrdom of Polycarp as Urban Religious Event
VII. Leading by Writing: Cyprian’s Management of a Heterarchical Crisis
VIII. Time to Build: Christians’ »Right to the City« Between Dura and Tyre
IX. A Tale of No Cities: Searching for Urbanity and Urban Religion in Augustine’s City of God
Recaps, Clarifications, Confessions, and Disclaimers: The Religion of Urban Religion
Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli, born 1983; PhD in History and Theology from the University of Turin and Geneva; PhD in Science of Culture at the Fondazione Collegio San Carlo di Modena; 2015-22 member of the KFG “Religion and Urbanity” as associate researcher at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies in Erfurt; Senior Assistant Professor in the History of Religions at the Department of History, Cultures, and Civilizations at the University of Bologna.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5572-910
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