Research outline

 

Religious identity, ritual practice and sacred architecture
in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, 100 BC - AD 400:
Sanctuaries between culture, religion and society

The Near East was in antiquity, as today, a hot spot for cultural, religious and political conflicts. Through studying the region in antiquity it is possible to focus on what the background for these conflicts were and how conflict management and solutions were implemented. The aim of this research project is to investigate the role of the sanctuaries in the zone between culture, religion and society in the late Hellenistic and Roman Near East and to view them in a diachronic perspective. In relation to the problems of religious and cultural nature today the project is relevant as it lays the ground to understanding cultural and religious developments in the region.

 

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