2024

SCS-83: Secrecy and sociogenesis: mysteries, restricted rituals, and the growth of religious communities

Hybrid SCS Session Affiliated Group Panel

Waldorf, 3rd Floor

Sponsored by:
The Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Organizers
Dina Boero, The College of New Jersey
Discussants
Sandra Blakely, Emory University
Introducers
Sandra Blakely, Emory University

02 - Secrecy and the Oracle Lore: On Knowledge Restriction in Ancient Babylonia

Netanel Anor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

03 - On the secrecy of Maenadic rites

Bartek Bednarek, University of Warsaw/ Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ

04 - How to suppress a secret cult: invective and perverted rites in Cicero’s Catilinarians

Isobel K. Köster, University of Colorado

05 - An Exploration of Secrecy and Sociogenesis from the Palatine Hill

Vivian Laughlin, Wake Forest University