Matthew M. McCarty, Religion and the making of Roman Africa: votive stelae, traditions, and empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 482. ISBN 9781107020184.Review by
Thelma Beth Minney, Stanford University. teminney@stanford.edu... In sum, this book provides an archaeological and historical catalog of religious practices alongside an investigation into how religious materials—specifically stelae—participated in the creation of social communities and the understanding of Roman imperial power in North Africa. Throughout, religion is written as constitutive of political, economic, and social discourses, instead of as ancillary to them.
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