Maik Patzelt (Herausgegeben von) Born 1987; lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany.Jörg Rüpke (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1962; 1989 Dr. phil. in Tübingen, 1994 Habilitation in Tübingen, 2021 in Graz und 2025 in Aarhus Ehrendoktorwürde (Dr. h.c. mult.); Professor für Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft und stellvertretender Direktor des Max-Weber-Kollegs für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien an der Universität Erfurt.Annette Weissenrieder (Herausgegeben von) is Professor of New Testament Theology and Exegesis and leads the Corpus Hellenisticum Institute at the Martin-Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg.

• Maik Patzelt/Annette Weissenrieder: Prayer and the ancient city: influences of urban space. An introductionI. Urban theoretical frameworkEmiliano R. Urciuoli/Jörg Rüpke: Religion and the urban: historical developmentsII. The intrinsic logic of the city: the mutuality of urban space and prayerYair Lipshitz: Ancient legacies, modern reactivations: urban space and the praying body in artistic performance in Jerusalem - Catherine Hezser: Caesarea Maritima, Greek prayer, and rabbinic Judaism - Gerard Rouwhorst: The formation of a Christian liturgical prayer tradition in the fourth and fifth centuries in a predominantly urban environment - Maik Patzelt: The creative potential of urban space: an urban approach to the prayers of the marginalised urban dwellers of Rome - Alexander Sokolicek: Toward a topography of the sacred in urban space: places of religious performance at Ephesos - Valentino Gasparini: Urban religion and risk-management at Simitthus (Chemtou, Tunisia)III. The power of imagined spaces: challenging and producing spatial routines of prayerUte Hüsken: The urban life of South Indian gods - Jan R. Stenger: Re-educating spatial habits: John Chrysostom on the production and transformation of urban space - Florian Wöller: The city as 'colonnades' and 'monastery': Libanius and John Chrysostom on Antiochene street processions - Harry O. Maier: The prayer of 1 Clement, mutual urban formations, and the urban aspirations of Roman Christ believers - Hekmat Dirbas: Communal prayer in an early Muslim city: Medina during the prophet's time - Annette Weissenrieder: Pater Sancte: the father appellation and the imaginaires of Jerusalem in the Vetus Latina Luke 11:2IV. The representation of the city in the discourses about prayerBarbara Schmitz: Urban spaces and prayer in the book of Judith - Nadine Ueberschaer: The transcending of the temple city to the kingdom of god and its consequences for the practice of prayer - Stefan Schorch: Praying in the countryside: Samaritanism as an anti-urban religion - Cornelia B. Horn: Prayer at the threshold of the city in the Lives of Rabbula and Barsauma: placing a late antique bishop and a monk in spiritual and spatial perspectives