{"id":989,"date":"2020-01-07T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=989"},"modified":"2019-12-18T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T15:02:23","slug":"divine-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Divine Saving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1576588489055_22107\" class=\"sqs-block soundcloud-block sqs-block-soundcloud sqs-col-6 span-6 float float-left\" data-block-type=\"56\" data-aspect-ratio=\"67\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1576680815608_119\" class=\"sqs-block-content sqs-intrinsic\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1576588489055_23414\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p><em>Reblogged from\u00a0https:\/\/www.openmaterialreligion.org\/resources-1\/2019\/12\/17\/divine-saving<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/humanities\/departments\/classics-and-archaeology\/people\/theodora.jim\" >Dr Theodora Jim<\/a> visited the The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion on the 21st November 2019, to give a paper entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openmaterialreligion.org\/past-events\/2019\/8\/22\/divine-saving\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.openmaterialreligion.org');\">Divine Saving and \u2018Votive\u2019 Religion in Ancient Greece<\/a>\u201d. After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Theodora Jim were joined by John Maiden and Emma-Jayne Graham to record an audio discussion about understandings of divine saving in antiquity and beyond. The discussion also features the voice of Dr Sara Patterson, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salvationmountain.org\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.salvationmountain.org');\">Salvation Mountain<\/a> in California.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F722189347&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;callback=YUI.Env.JSONP.yui_3_17_2_1_1576588489055_22881&amp;wmode=opaque\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Programme structure and timecodes: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>0.00<\/strong> Introduction; <strong>0.43<\/strong> Theodora Jim on the challenges of translating the word <em>soteria<\/em>, and the evidence for cults of &#8216;saviour gods&#8217; in ancient Greece; <strong>6.20<\/strong> Emma-Jayne Graham on votive offerings from early Roman Italy, and their possible links to understandings of divine saving; <strong>12.25<\/strong> John Maiden on divine saving in Christianity, including the textual traditions of the Old and New Testaments, and the practice of dedicating ex-votos in Mexico; <strong>19.50<\/strong> Sara Patterson on Salvation Mountain; <strong>28.17<\/strong> Studio responses to Sara Patterson; <strong>34.10<\/strong> Theodora Jim on a votive relief from the Asklepeieon at Athens; <strong>36.38<\/strong> Emma-Jayne Graham on the votive &#8216;open torso&#8217; busts from early Roman Italy; <strong>38.51<\/strong> John Maiden on the Exodus narrative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Further reading and resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graham, Emma-Jayne (2020) \u2018Hand in hand: Rethinking anatomical votives as material things\u2019, in V. Gasparini, M. Patzelt, R. Raja, A-K. Rieger, J. R\u00fcpke, E. Urciuoli (eds).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/view\/product\/495097\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.degruyter.com');\"><em>Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics<\/em><\/a>. Berlin, De Gruyter (Open Access).<\/p>\n<p>Graham, Emma-Jayne (2017) \u2018Partible humans and permeable gods: enacting human-divine personhood in the sanctuaries of Hellenistic Italy\u2019, in J. Draycott and E-J. Graham (eds) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Bodies-of-Evidence-Ancient-Anatomical-Votives-Past-Present-and-Future\/Draycott-Graham\/p\/book\/9781472450807\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.routledge.com');\"><em>Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future<\/em><\/a>, Routledge, 45-62.<\/p>\n<p>Graziano, Frank (2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/miraculous-images-and-votive-offerings-in-mexico-9780199790852?cc=gb&amp;lang=en\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/global.oup.com');\"><em>Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico<\/em><\/a>, Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes, Jessica (2016) &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaniasacra.org\/article\/fractured-narratives\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.campaniasacra.org');\">Fractured Narratives: Writing the Biography of a Votive Offering<\/a>&#8216;,\u00a0in I. Weinryb (ed)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/E\/bo22329416.html\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/press.uchicago.edu');\"><em>Ex Voto: Votive Giving Across Cultures<\/em><\/a>, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 23-48.<\/p>\n<p>Jim, Theodora, S. F. (2017)\u00a0&#8216;\u201cSalvation\u201d and Ancient Mystery Cults&#8217;,\u00a0<em>Archiv f\u00fcr Religionsgeschichte<\/em>\u00a018,\u00a0255-281.<\/p>\n<p>Jim, Theodora, S. F. \u00a0(2015)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.lancs.ac.uk\/id\/eprint\/77669\/\" >&#8216;Can Soteira be Named? The Problem of the Bare Trans-divine Epithet&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Papyrologie und Epigraphik<\/em>.\u00a0195,\u00a063-74.<\/p>\n<p>Jim, Theodora, S. F. (2014)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/sharing-with-the-gods-9780198706823?cc=gb&amp;lang=en\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/global.oup.com');\"><em>Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece<\/em><\/a>, Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Maiden, John (2019)\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/oro.open.ac.uk\/60304\/\" >The emergence of Catholic Charismatic Renewal \u2018in a country\u2019: Australia and transnational Catholic Charismatic Renewal<\/a>\u2019\u00a0<em>Studies in World Christianity<\/em>\u00a0(in press).<\/p>\n<p>Maiden, John (2016) \u00a0\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/oro.open.ac.uk\/47153\/\" >Renewing the body of Christ: Sharing of Ministries Abroad (SOMA) USA and transnational charismatic Anglicanism, 1978-1998<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0<em>Journal of American Studies<\/em>, 51.4: 1243\u20131266.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson, Sara M. (2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/unmpress.com\/books\/middle-nowhere\/9780826356307\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/unmpress.com');\"><em>Middle of Nowhere: Religion, Art and Pop Culture at Salvation Mountain<\/em><\/a>, University of New Mexico Press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reblogged from\u00a0https:\/\/www.openmaterialreligion.org\/resources-1\/2019\/12\/17\/divine-saving Dr Theodora Jim visited the The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion on the 21st November 2019, to give a paper entitled \u201cDivine Saving and \u2018Votive\u2019 Religion in Ancient Greece\u201d. 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