Religious Violence in the Ancient World (eBook, ePUB)

From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity
Redaktion: Dijkstra, Jitse H. F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Much like our world today, Late Antiquity (fourth-seventh centuries CE) is often seen as a period rife with religious violence, not least because the literary sources are full of stories of Christians attacking temples, statues and 'pagans'. However, using insights from Religious Studies, recent studies have demonstrated that the Late Antique sources disguise a much more intricate reality. The present volume builds on this recent cutting-edge scholarship on religious violence in Late Antiquity in order to come to more nuanced judgments about the nature of the violence. At the same time, the focus on Late Antiquity has taken away from the fact that the phenomenon was no less prevalent in the earlier Graeco-Roman world. This book is therefore the first to bring together scholars with expertise ranging from classical Athens to Late Antiquity to examine the phenomenon in all its complexity and diversity throughout Antiquity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108849210
• Artikelnr.: 62746274

Inhaltsangabe

1. General introduction Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Christian R. Raschle; I.
Methodology: 2. Sacred prefigurations of violence: Religious communities in
situations of conflict Hans G. Kippenberg; 3. Priestesses, pogroms and
persecutions: Religious violence in antiquity in a diachronic perspective
Jan N. Bremmer; II. Religious Violence in The Graeco-Roman world: 4.
Ancient Greek binding spells and (political) violence Esther Eidinow; 5.
The expulsion of Isis worshippers and astrologers from Rome in the late
republic and early empire Christian R. Raschle; 6. Religious violence? two
massacres on a Sabbath in 66 CE: Jerusalem and Caesarea Steve Mason; 7.
Religion, violence and the diasporic experience: The Jewish diaspora in
Flavian Rome and Puteoli Andreas Bendlin; 8. Animal sacrifice and the Roman
persecution of Christians (Second-Third Centuries) James B. Rives; 9. The
great persecution and imperial ideology: Patterns of communication on
Tetrarchic Coinage Erika Manders; 10. The violent legacy of constantine's
Militant Piety Elizabeth Depalma Digeser; III: Religious violence in late
antiquity: 11. Religious violence in late antiquity: Current approaches,
trends and issues Wendy Mayer; 12. Coercion in late antiquity: A brief
intellectual history Peter Van Nuffelen; 13. Crowd Behaviour and the
Destruction of the Serapeum at Alexandria in 391/392 CE Jitse H.F.
Dijkstra; 14. Violence and Monks: From a Mystical Concept to an Intolerant
Practice (Fourth-Fifth Centuries) Fabrizio Vecoli; 15. The discipline of
domination: Asceticism, violence and monastic curses in Theodoret's
Historia Religiosa Chris L. De Wet; 16. Suffering saints: Shaping
narratives of violence after chalcedon Christine Shepardson; 17. Fighting
for Chalcedon: Vitalian's rebellion against Anastasius Hugh Elton; 18. The
Emperor, the people and urban violence in the fifth and sixth centuries
Geoffrey Greatrex.