Cambridge University Press Cambridge Religion and the Making of Roman Africa Book

Religion and the Making of Roman Africa: Votive Stelae, Traditions, and Empire by Cambridge University Press offers a fundamental rewrite of the cultural and religious history of North Africa during the Roman Empire. This scholarly work focuses on rituals related to child sacrifice and the carved-stone monuments used for these offerings. Moving beyond earlier colonial archaeologies that focused on the failure of Romanization, this text utilizes postcolonial theory, pragmatic semiotics, material epistemologies, and relational ontologies to examine the region. It provides a new perspective on the relationship between Indigenous and Punic settler populations and the Roman Empire through the study of votive stelae and inscriptions.