Introducing new, re-interpreting old gods. Religious pluralism and agency in Africa Proconsularis and Numidia (146 B.C.-235 A.D.).

该项目声称要展示的方式，在非洲Proconsularis和努米底亚的罗马省，不断变化的社交网络如何影响个人行为者的宗教偏好和利益。从第三次布匿战争结束到塞维兰王朝（公元前146年-公元前147年）结束公元235年），北非的社会结构经历了新的神灵。这一过程一方面决定了新的崇拜的引入，另一方面，它导致了对旧神的重新解释：当地的非洲神、腓尼基神和迦太基神在新的罗马版本中被整合和重塑，同时，它们丰富了传统罗马神的形象，例如产生了新的肖像特征、新的神名和新的史诗。宗教选择的逐渐丰富反映并制约了个人和集体身份的多元化。对这些“运动中的邪教”进行跨学科研究（涉及古代文学、钱币学、金石学和考古学证据）需要分析不同社会成分之间的可能关系以及它们所处环境的罗马化程度。通过历史化北非宗教机构的不同条件和情况，该项目旨在推断非洲邪教发展的一般模式和地方变体的原因和后果。

The project claims to show the way how, in the Roman provinces of Africa Proconsularis and Numidia, the shifting social networks influenced the religious preferences and interests of the individual actors. From the end of the Third Punic War to the end of the Severan dynasty (146 B.C.-235 A.D.), new deities were experienced by the social fabric in North Africa. This process determined, on the one hand, the introduction of new cults, while, on the other hand, it led to the re-interpretation of the old deities: the local African, Phoenician and Punic gods were integrated and reshaped in a new Roman version and, at the same time, they enriched the profile of the traditional Roman Gods, by producing e.g. new iconographical attributes, new theonyms and new epiclesis. The gradual enrichment of cultic options reflected and conditioned the multiplication of individual and collective identities. An interdisciplinary study of these “cults in motion” (involving ancient literature, numismatics, epigraphy and archaeological evidence) requires the analysis of the possible relation between the different social components and the degree of Romanization of the contexts they were embedded in. Through historicizing the different conditions and circumstances of religious agency in North Africa, the project aims to extrapolate causes and consequences of the general models and the local variants in the African cultic development.