Generative Historiography of Ancient Religions : How to Model
the Spread of Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean

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Generative Historiography of Ancient Religions : How to Model the Spread of Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean

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

Basic information

Original name

Generative Historiography of Ancient Religions : How to Model the Spread of Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean

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

Historical Network Research Conference, 11.-13.9.2018, Brno, Czech Republic, 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00101434

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

rané křesťanství; kult Ísidy a Sarápida; transportní síť; síťová analýza; matematické modelování; simulace

Keywords in English

Early Christianity; the cult of Isis and Sarapis; transportation network; network analysis; mathematical modeling; simulation

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 modelling, 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. Presented case studies focus on 1) the identification of factors influencing the spread of Egyptian cults in the Aegean sea and their relative importance (political and economic factors); 2) the role of environmental factors and the parameters of the transportation network in the spread of Early Christianity; 3) the importance of Jewish subnetwork for the successful spread of Early Christianity in the first two centuries CE.

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. Generative Historiography of Ancient Religions : How to Model the Spread of Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean. In Historical Network Research Conference, 11.-13.9.2018, Brno, Czech Republic. 2018.

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CHALUPA, Aleš, Tomáš GLOMB, Dalibor PAPOUŠEK, Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL, Adam MERTEL and Zdeněk STACHOŇ. Generative Historiography of Ancient Religions : How to Model the Spread of Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean. In \textit{Historical Network Research Conference, 11.-13.9.2018, Brno, Czech Republic}. 2018.

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