The religious history of the Roman Empire: pagans, Jews, and Christians

A collection of previously published papers by leading scholars, dealing withthe religious history of the Roman Empire. It covers Christianity and Judaismas well as the paganism of the Empire which so deeply influenced these world religions. INDICE: John North & Simon Price: Introduction; I. Changes in Religious Life: Roman and Civic Cults; 1: Jörg Rüpke: Roman Religion and the Religion of Empire: Some Reflections on Method; 2: Richard Gordon: The Roman Imperial Cult and the Question of Power; 3: J. B. Rives: Magic in Roman Law: The Reconstruction of a Crime; 4: William Van Andringa: New Combinations and New Statuses: The Indigenous Gods in the Pantheons of the Cities of Roman Gaul; 5: Nicole Belayche: Hypsistos: A Way of Exalting the Gods in Graeco-Roman Polytheism; 6: Andreas Bendlin: On the Uses and Disadvantages of Divination: Oracles and their Literary Representations in the Time of the Second Sophistic; II. Elective Cults; 7: Simon Price: Homogeneity and Diversity in the Religions of Rome; 8: Giulia Sfameni Gasparro: Oriental Mysteries and Cults: A Problem in the History ofReligions; 9: Richard Gordon: Ritual and Hierarchy in the Mysteries of Mithras; 10: John Scheid: Community and Community: Reflections on Some Ambiguities Based on the Thiasoi of Roman Egypt; III. Coexistence of Religions, Old and New; 11: Philip Harland: Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and 'Pagan' Guilds at Hierapolis; 12: Martin Goodman: Josephus and Varietyin First-Century Judaism; 13: Judith Lieu: The Forging of Christian Identity and the Letter To Diognetus; 14: Guy G. Stroumsa: Purification and its Discontents: Mani's Rejection of Baptism; 15: J. A. North: Pagans, Polytheists and the Pendulum; IV. Late Antiquity; 16: Averil Cameron: Early Christianity and theDiscourse of Female Desire; 17: Peter Brown: Enjoying the Saints in Late Antiquity

• ISBN: 978-0-19-956735-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 592
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés