Religion and the Making of Roman Africa is a decolonizing work that interrogates the persistence of orientalist paradigms in the study of Roman Africa, particularly the trope that North African religiosity was exotic and thus innately resistant to Romanization. Matthew McCarty frames decolonization as a ‘deconstructive practice’ and uses this approach to present new readings … Continue reading Religion and the making of Roman Africa: votive stelae, traditions, and empire