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SUMMARY:Own Festivities with Alien Guests: Inclusion of Outsiders in Culti
 c Communities
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DESCRIPTION:flyer\nprogramm\nIn Greek and Roman Antiquity every political 
 community\, including the Hellenistic polis\, is considered a residential\
 , legal\, and ritual community as well. Therefore non-citizens were only i
 n exceptional cases allowed to participate in religious festivities\, and 
 this privilege was granted mostly to ‘foreigners’ being permanent resi
 dents in the specific community with scope and nature of their participati
 on varying broadly. On the other hand citizens not participating in the co
 mmunal rituals were considered a threat to the polis\, as the risked the c
 ontinued benevolence of the gods.In those circumstances Jews and Christian
 s were struggling to take part in the sacrificial rites for the communally
  worshiped gods\, e.g. a deified ruler. In return Jewish and Christian cul
 tic communities opened their own social meetings and festivities to potent
 ial new members. This hospitality was critical for the successful developm
 ent of the respective religious communities\, especially for the early Chr
 istian cults.Our workshop is going to compare the attitudes of Pagan\, Jew
 ish\, and Christian communities towards the inclusion of ‚guests’ in t
 heir religious festivities and will specifically tackle the question of th
 e possible motivators for this opening of communal rituals for ‚alien’
  participants\, e.g. the idea of universality of the worshipped god(s). Ho
 w the persons invited to such privileges reacted will also be a topic of d
 iscussion.
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/FesteGaeste_1920012012_eng/
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