Statues, temples, altars: divine images and their material contexts in Imperial and Late Antique learned writing about religion (A03)

这个子项目研究神像及其物质背景是如何在帝国和晚期古董中被表现和对待的，这些都是关于宗教的学术论述。它在“真实的”或“习得的”宗教的规范概念的背景下探讨对雕像、寺庙和祭坛的解释和估值。此外，它还评估了这些要素的话语表述在划定和绘制宗教作为一个独特的社会文化领域的范围和地图方面的作用。它还侧重于重建思维模式、论点和权威文本的共享曲目，不同宗教派别的知识分子借鉴这些曲目。

The subproject studies how divine statues and their material contexts were represented and treated in the imperial and late antique learned discourse about religion. It inquires into interpretations and valuations of statues, temples and altars against the background of normative concepts of ‘true’ or ‘learned’ religion. Moreover, it assesses the roles of discursive representations of these elements in delimiting and mapping the religious as a distinct socio-cultural domain. It also focusses the reconstruction of the shared repertoires of patterns of thought, arguments, and authoritative texts, on which intellectuals of different religious affiliation draw.