Naslov
Religion in Contact: Illyrian interpretation of Roman Religion, A Cognitive Approach

Autori
Lulić, Josipa

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
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Skup
Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference

Mjesto i datum
London, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 04.04.2013. - 06.04.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Silvanus; Cognitive Approach; Roman Religion; Roman Provinces; Dalmatia

Sažetak
The concept of Romanisation is one of the most debated concepts in the scholarship on Roman provinces. The role of religion and the incorporation of native pantheons into Roman religious world play an important role in discussing the problem of acculturation, regardless of the theoretical approach. The traditional definition of the interpretatio Romana presupposes two distinct concepts, of the autochthonous and of the Roman deities, which can be compared on a certain level. I will try to show on the example of Diana and Silvanus from the Roman province of Dalmatia (almost unanimously interpreted as the interpretatio Romana of the autochthonous deities of the Delmatae tribe), that the distinct border between the concepts did not exist in the minds of the worshipers. I will argue that the worshipers never consciously relativised or recombined religious concepts, and that the occasionally extremely large differences in representations are created because of the way in which human brain processes information. Cognitive processes depend on cognitive schemata, partly inborn, but mostly created in the early childhood, that guide and interpret stimuli acquired by perception. Human mind more easily retains and communicates familiar information, and tends to ignore the less familiar ones. The new, Roman religious representations thus underwent the local interpretation, certainly rooted in the pre- existent cognitive schemata that included the old gods, at least in the first generations, but later the “new” Silvanus and Diana became part of the cultural world in their own right, loosing the connection to the autochthonous deities.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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