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Huissoon, Jeroen (2019)

Challenging Migrant Cults: A multidisciplinary approach to identity and religion in imperial Ostia

Master thesis | History (MA)

This Master thesis explores the relationship between migration and religious cults in the context of Roman imperial Ostia. By combining different academic disciplines, such as history, epigraphy, archeology and bio-archeology, this study aims at finding if foreign immmigrants in Ostia continued to practice their religious traditions in a community with others migrants.

Ostia

migration

religion

identity

cults

roman

Author

Huissoon, Jeroen

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Ancient History

Supervisors

Tacoma, Laurens

ECTS Credits

30

Language

en