Theme:
1. Networks, networking, communication: archaeology of interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Urban Networks and Religious Practices. Revisiting the Edges: Infrastructure and Routes
Content:
The session takes part of a wider discussion on religious practices and urban networks: together with session 406, the papers of “Revisiting the Edges: Infrastructures and routes” analyses the reciprocal impact of urban networks and religious practices in the Mediterranean World and beyond, from the Archaic until Medieval period.
If settlements can be depicted as vibrant elements that produce a plethora of data, as well as ideas and knowledge, then networks and routes are representing an ensemble of linking edges that transmit these data from one urban core to the other urban core. This section aims to look at the material and immaterial channels of (trans-)urban connections, which emerge through migration and mobility, and ask specifically about the power of relations regarding religious practices: how did religion change through the channels? How does religion contribute to the connection of cities? How did these networks contribute to maintain or even reduce the urban character of settlements?
Keywords:
(trans-)urban networking, religious practices, infrastructure/facilities on routes, religious mobility, co-spatiality
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Elisa Iori (Italy) 1
Co-organisers:
Sara Keller (France) 2
Affiliations:
1. ISMEO-Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan
2. Institut d´études avancées de Nantes
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