Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emiliano Rubens |
| FAMILY NAME | Urciuoli |
| SIGNATURE | URCIUOLI E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Erfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5572-9101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Citifying Jesus
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 …
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
Urban religion beyond the city
The concept of urban religion demands us to start operationally with analyzing characteristics of urban environments and their impact on religious forms of communication. Yet this notion was not necessarily designed to apply only to the city and related phenomena exclusively observed in city spaces. Practices, beliefs, even institutions developing as urban religion spread out beyond the city. Thus, the geography of lived urban religion and of age…
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
Death in Smyrna
The essay concentrates on the Martyrdom of Polycarp, a script largely believed to contain the earliest extant occurrences of a Christian technical martyrdom vocabulary. On the one hand, we will lay bare the distinctively urban character of this death performance by showing how and to what extent all the components of the martyrdom apparatus relate to the city as socio-spatial condition of production and consumption, textualisation and memorialisa…
Heterarchy
Transferred from neurophysiology and cybernetics to the humanities and the social sciences by settlement archeologist Carole L. Crumley, the notion of heterarchy, in particular, and heterarchical thinking, in general, have contributed to changing the way in which power structures other than hierarchies are seen as patterns for order in complex societies. The very idea of social complexity has been transformed by challenging the conflation of orde…
A Divisive Intellectualist Leader
Initially, the article concentrates on a major change in ancient Mediterranean religions that can be understood as an “intellectualization of religion.” Focusing on the text-based practices of early Christian religious specialists, it looks at this phenomenon as a facet of an urban religion rather than an inherent quality of early Christ religion. The article goes on to address heterarchy, i.e., the tendency toward a nonhierarchical arrangement o…
"Andare in crisi". La conversione cristiana antica al di là delle metafisiche del soggetto
Aim of this paper is to foreground the conceptual limits and epistemological blind spots of a very influential psychological model of religious conversion by looking anew at two late antique cases of ‘turns’ to Christianity, namely those of Cyprian of Carthage (245-246 C.E.) and Augustine of Hippo (386 C.E.). Narratives on these conversions not only document the struggle of desired newness and resistant habits in the in-between phase of the turni…
Weapons of the (Christian) weak
Confrontational behaviors do not tell the whole story about resistance. Among other things, Jesus of Nazareth seems to have taught his disciples how to cheat the dominant. What the reddite Caesari scene probably depicts is a peasant prophet befuddling some proxies of the ruling class by playing dumb and making riddles. This teaching was not lost. Double-sided expressions, ambiguous speeches, and code-switching practices are found throughout early…
Introduction to Section 4
This fourth section of the volume focuses on heterogeneous items that the technical \njargon of related disciplines and specialized bodies of knowledge have \ntraditionally worked to isolate from one another, for instance by tagging them \nas conversion and Judaization, apostasy and Hellenization, \nnarrativization, textualization and interpolation, commentary, and accommodation. In this volume, these items are all grouped together under a genera…
Pursuing lived ancient religion
(Good) People Next Door
(Good) People Next Door
Urban Religion at the Neighbourhood Level in the Roman Empire
3
Jumping Among the Temples. Snapshots of an Early Christian. Critique of Polytheism’s « Spatial Fix »
The paper aims to critically resort to the materialist-geographical concept of the «spatial fix » for deepening understanding of the functioning of ancient Mediterranean polytheism as urban religion. After expounding its key notion, it focuses on a few selected samples of the early Christian critique of the polytheist production of a religious built environment in order to foreground and reassess the spatialized character of their arguments. Last…
Religion in the making
For the past five years (2012–2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”’, financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on ‘Religious individualisation in historical perspective’ (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. “Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective.” Religion 45 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.10417…
Religion in the making
For the past five years (2012–2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”’, financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on ‘Religious individualisation in historical perspective’ (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. “Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective.” Religion 45 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.10417…
Urban religion beyond the city
The concept of urban religion demands us to start operationally with analyzing characteristics of urban environments and their impact on religious forms of communication. Yet this notion was not necessarily designed to apply only to the city and related phenomena exclusively observed in city spaces. Practices, beliefs, even institutions developing as urban religion spread out beyond the city. Thus, the geography of lived urban religion and of age…
Heterarchy
Transferred from neurophysiology and cybernetics to the humanities and the social sciences by settlement archeologist Carole L. Crumley, the notion of heterarchy, in particular, and heterarchical thinking, in general, have contributed to changing the way in which power structures other than hierarchies are seen as patterns for order in complex societies. The very idea of social complexity has been transformed by challenging the conflation of orde…
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
Religion in the making
For the past five years (2012–2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”’, financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on ‘Religious individualisation in historical perspective’ (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. “Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective.” Religion 45 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.10417…
Weapons of the (Christian) weak
Confrontational behaviors do not tell the whole story about resistance. Among other things, Jesus of Nazareth seems to have taught his disciples how to cheat the dominant. What the reddite Caesari scene probably depicts is a peasant prophet befuddling some proxies of the ruling class by playing dumb and making riddles. This teaching was not lost. Double-sided expressions, ambiguous speeches, and code-switching practices are found throughout early…
Introduction to Section 4
This fourth section of the volume focuses on heterogeneous items that the technical \njargon of related disciplines and specialized bodies of knowledge have \ntraditionally worked to isolate from one another, for instance by tagging them \nas conversion and Judaization, apostasy and Hellenization, \nnarrativization, textualization and interpolation, commentary, and accommodation. In this volume, these items are all grouped together under a genera…
Pursuing lived ancient religion
(Good) People Next Door
(Good) People Next Door
Urban Religion at the Neighbourhood Level in the Roman Empire
3
Jumping Among the Temples. Snapshots of an Early Christian. Critique of Polytheism’s « Spatial Fix »
The paper aims to critically resort to the materialist-geographical concept of the «spatial fix » for deepening understanding of the functioning of ancient Mediterranean polytheism as urban religion. After expounding its key notion, it focuses on a few selected samples of the early Christian critique of the polytheist production of a religious built environment in order to foreground and reassess the spatialized character of their arguments. Last…
"Andare in crisi". La conversione cristiana antica al di là delle metafisiche del soggetto
Aim of this paper is to foreground the conceptual limits and epistemological blind spots of a very influential psychological model of religious conversion by looking anew at two late antique cases of ‘turns’ to Christianity, namely those of Cyprian of Carthage (245-246 C.E.) and Augustine of Hippo (386 C.E.). Narratives on these conversions not only document the struggle of desired newness and resistant habits in the in-between phase of the turni…
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
Death in Smyrna
The essay concentrates on the Martyrdom of Polycarp, a script largely believed to contain the earliest extant occurrences of a Christian technical martyrdom vocabulary. On the one hand, we will lay bare the distinctively urban character of this death performance by showing how and to what extent all the components of the martyrdom apparatus relate to the city as socio-spatial condition of production and consumption, textualisation and memorialisa…
Heterarchy
Transferred from neurophysiology and cybernetics to the humanities and the social sciences by settlement archeologist Carole L. Crumley, the notion of heterarchy, in particular, and heterarchical thinking, in general, have contributed to changing the way in which power structures other than hierarchies are seen as patterns for order in complex societies. The very idea of social complexity has been transformed by challenging the conflation of orde…
A Divisive Intellectualist Leader
Initially, the article concentrates on a major change in ancient Mediterranean religions that can be understood as an “intellectualization of religion.” Focusing on the text-based practices of early Christian religious specialists, it looks at this phenomenon as a facet of an urban religion rather than an inherent quality of early Christ religion. The article goes on to address heterarchy, i.e., the tendency toward a nonhierarchical arrangement o…
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
Urban religion beyond the city
The concept of urban religion demands us to start operationally with analyzing characteristics of urban environments and their impact on religious forms of communication. Yet this notion was not necessarily designed to apply only to the city and related phenomena exclusively observed in city spaces. Practices, beliefs, even institutions developing as urban religion spread out beyond the city. Thus, the geography of lived urban religion and of age…
Citifying Jesus
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 …
Philosophy (10 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works)