In the past two decades, the “archaeology of religion” has moved from the margins of scholarship to the center, led by the growth of postprocessual archaeological hermeneutics. 1 Such theoretical frames – whether the materiality of religion, objects as agents, the entanglement of humans and objects, or “thing theory” – demonstrate the centrality of the physical world and its archaeological correlates to religion. They offer new ways of posing questions about the construction of meanings for worshippers through materials.2

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古代邪教的考古学：从基础存款到罗马密特拉教的宗教

在过去的二十年里，“宗教考古学”在后过程考古学解释学的发展引领下，从学术边缘走向了中心。1这些理论框架——无论是宗教的物质性、作为主体的物体、人与物体的纠缠，还是“物论”——都证明了物质世界的中心地位及其与宗教的考古关联。它们提供了新的方式来提出有关通过材料为崇拜者构建意义的问题。2