Modeling the spread of religion : The spread of Egyptian cults
in the Agean Sea throughout the early Hellenistic period
(323-167 BCE)

k 2018

Modeling the spread of religion : The spread of Egyptian cults in the Agean Sea throughout the early Hellenistic period (323-167 BCE)

CHALUPA, Aleš, Tomáš GLOMB, Dalibor PAPOUŠEK, Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL, Adam MERTEL et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Modeling the spread of religion : The spread of Egyptian cults in the Agean Sea throughout the early Hellenistic period (323-167 BCE)

Authors

CHALUPA, Aleš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Tomáš GLOMB (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Dalibor PAPOUŠEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Adam MERTEL (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Zdeněk STACHOŇ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

MERCURY workshop : Simulating Roman Economies, 3.-4.10.2018, Oxford, Velká Británie, 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00101276

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Mathematical modeling; Network Analysis; Spread of Religions; Egyptian Cults; Early Christianity

Abstract

V originále

The paper presents results of the research conducted within the framework of the GEHIR project (Generative Historiography of Religion), investigated in the years 2015-2017 at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, by an interdisciplinary team including scholars of religion, computer scientists, geographers, and mathematicians. This project applied innovative methods previously used in the study of the dynamics of complex systems (e.g., mathematical and computational modeling, network science) to reach a better understanding of the history of four religious traditions active in the ancient Mediterranean: Egyptian cults, Mithraism, Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity. The presented case study focuses on the evaluation of the factors that influenced the spread of Egyptian cults (especially the cult of Isis and Sarapis) in the Aegean Sea throughout the early Hellenistic period (ca 323-167 BCE). Two main hypotheses were introduced, one accentuating the importance of political factors (Ptolemaic propaganda), the other of trade/economic factors (grain trade between Alexandria and island in the Aegean Sea), but outcomes of scholarly discussion remain inconclusive. A possible solution can be found in supplementing established methodological apparatus of historiography by formalized methods, e.g., the coding of relevant datasets, statistics, geospatial modeling, and network analysis. To be able to compare the possible impacts of political and trade/economic factors on the spread of Egyptian cults we 1) constructed a model of the ancient maritime transportation network as a platform for quantitative analysis, 2) transformed selected factors of possible influence into georeferenced parameters of the network, and 3) defined a mathematical model that allowed us to determine which parameters of the network explain the spatial dissemination of archaeological evidence connected to Egyptian cults in the most persuasive way.

Links

GA18-07487S, research and development project

Name: Náboženství na sítích antického Středomoří: Role primárních a sekundárních center při šíření náboženských inovací

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

CHALUPA, Aleš, Tomáš GLOMB, Dalibor PAPOUŠEK, Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL, Adam MERTEL and Zdeněk STACHOŇ. Modeling the spread of religion : The spread of Egyptian cults in the Agean Sea throughout the early Hellenistic period (323-167 BCE). In MERCURY workshop : Simulating Roman Economies, 3.-4.10.2018, Oxford, Velká Británie. 2018.

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CHALUPA, Aleš, Tomáš GLOMB, Dalibor PAPOUŠEK, Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL, Adam MERTEL and Zdeněk STACHOŇ. Modeling the spread of religion : The spread of Egyptian cults in the Agean Sea throughout the early Hellenistic period (323-167 BCE). In \textit{MERCURY workshop : Simulating Roman Economies, 3.-4.10.2018, Oxford, Velká Británie}. 2018.

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