The importance and primacy of individual religious experience is attested in ancient cases of and discourses about religious deviance. In reviewing religious norms from Cicero to the Theodosian Code in late antiquity, Jörg Rüpke reconstructs a hitherto neglected feature of ancient Mediterranean religion and its conceptualisation by contemporaries.
Offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for religious deviance practices in the Roman world.
