The religious history of the Roman Empire

pagans, Jews, and Christians

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The religious history of the Roman Empire
John A. North, S. R. F. Price
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The religious history of the Roman Empire: pagans, Jews, and Christians
2011, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

1: Changes in religious life : Roman and civic cults. Roman religion and the religion of empire : some reflections on method / Jörg Rüpke ; The Roman imperial cult and the question of power / Richard Gordon ; Magic in Roman law : the reconstruction of a crime / J. B. Rives ; New combinations and new statuses : the indigenous gods in the pantheons of the cities of Roman Gaul / William Van Andringa ; Hypsistos : a way of exalting the gods in Graeco-Roman polytheism / Nicole Belayche ; On the uses and disadvantages of divination : oracles and their literary representations in the time of the Second Sophistic / Andreas Bendlin
2: Elective cults. Homogeneity and diversity in the religions of Rome / Simon Price ; Mysteries and Oriental cults : a problem in the history of religions / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro ; Ritual and hierarchy in the Mysteries of Mithras / Richard Gordon ; Community and community : reflections on some ambiguities based on the 'Thiasoí' of Roman Egypt / John Scheid
3: Co-existence of religions, old and new. Acculturation and identitiy in the Diaspora : a Jewish family and 'pagan' guilds at Hiersapolis / Philip Harland ; Josephus and variety in first-century Judaism / Martin Goodman ; The forging of Christian identity and the 'Letter to Diognetus' / Judith Lieu ; Purification and its discontents : Mani's rejection of baptism / Guy G. Stroumsa ; Pagans, polytheiests, and the pendulum / J. A. North
4: Late Antiquity. Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire / Averil Cameron ; Enjoying the saints in Late Antiquity / Peter Brown.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [564]-571) and index.

Series
Oxford readings in classical studies, Oxford readings in classical studies

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Dewey Decimal Class
292.07
Library of Congress
BL803 .R62 2011, BL803.R62 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 577 p. :
Number of pages
577

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Open Library
OL25026315M
ISBN 10
0199567344, 0199567352
ISBN 13
9780199567348, 9780199567355
LCCN
2011283895
OCLC/WorldCat
687700601

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