Two recent books provide exceptionally stimulating insights on how space gives shape to religious representations. On the one hand, Mark S. Smith’s 2016 book Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World focuses on the spatial dimension of the divine presence, as a crucial dimension of human experience. On the other hand, Robert Parker’s 2017 book Greek Gods Abroad: Names, Natures and Transformations, concentrates on the naming processes and their evolution in cross-cultural contexts. Both publications offer rich evidence on the interaction between naming and locating the gods. This paper, written by the team of the ERC project “Mapping Ancient Polytheisms”, is an attempt to extend and improve reflection on these topics, by offering a survey of the current research on mapping and naming the gods.

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映射古神：超越“拟人化”的命名和体现。该领域的调查与 MS Smith 和 R. Parker 的著作相呼应

最近的两本书就空间如何塑造宗教表现提供了异常刺激的见解。一方面，马克 S. 史密斯 2016 年出版的书《神在哪里：圣经世界拟人化的空间维度》侧重于神圣临在的空间维度，作为人类体验的一个关键维度。另一方面，罗伯特·帕克 (Robert Parker) 2017 年出版的《希腊众神在国外：名字、自然和转变》一书专注于命名过程及其在跨文化背景下的演变。这两份出版物都提供了关于命名和定位诸神之间相互作用的丰富证据。这篇论文由 ERC 项目“映射古代多神教”的团队撰写，试图通过对当前有关映射和命名众神的研究进行调查来扩展和改进对这些主题的反思。