Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th – 7th cent.)
Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th – 7th cent.)

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 9004299041

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In Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City, historians, archaeologists and historians of religion provide studies of the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city. The eleven papers brought together here aim to describe the possible links between religious, but also political, economic and social mutations engendered by Christianity and the evolution of the antique city. Combining a multiplicity of sources and analytical approaches, this book seeks to measure the impact on the city of the progressive abandonment of traditional cults to the advantage of new Christian religious practices.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual

Author: Risto Uro

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 019874787X

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The Handbook provides an indispensable account of the ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning of the movement up to the end of the sixth century.

The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry
The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry

Author: Fotini Hadjittofi

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 3110696215

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Classicizing Christian poetry has largely been neglected by literary scholars, but has recently been receiving growing attention, especially the poetry written in Latin. One of the objectives of this volume is to redress the balance by allowing more space to discussions of Greek Christian poetry. The contributions collected here ask how Christian poets engage with (and are conscious of) the double reliance of their poetry on two separate systems: on the one hand, the classical poetic models and, on the other, the various genres and sub-genres of Christian prose. Keeping in mind the different settings of the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West, the contributions seek to understand the impact of historical setting on genre, the influence of the paideia shared by authors and audiences, and the continued relevance of traditional categories of literary genre. While our immediate focus is genre, most of the contributions also engage with the ideological ramifications of the transposition of Christian themes into classicizing literature. This volume offers important and original case studies on the reception and appropriation of the classical past and its literary forms by Christian poetry.

Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire
Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-04-08

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9004537465

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This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definition that made the empire into a superstructure whose coherence was embedded in its diversity.

Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450
Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450

Author: Maijastina Kahlos

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Published: 2020

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 019006725X

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Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the Christianization of the late Roman Empire. The focus is on the shifting position of dissenting religious groups ('pagans' and 'heretics'). The book shows that the narrative is more nuanced than the simple Christian triumph over the classical world.

Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas
Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas

Author: Cilliers Breytenbach

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-14

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 9004524592

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This volume focuses on the rise and expansion of Christianity in Athens, Attica, and adjacent areas, from the Pauline mission until the closing of the philosophical schools under Justinian I. It takes into account all relevant literary, epigraphical, and archaeological evidence.

Christianizing Egypt
Christianizing Egypt

Author: David Frankfurter

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0691216789

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How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active in Egyptian culture during late antiquity. As David Frankfurter shows, members of these different social and creative worlds came to create different forms of Christianity according to their specific interests, their traditional idioms, and their sense of what the religion could offer. Reintroducing the term “syncretism” for the inevitable and continuous process by which a religion is acculturated, the book addresses the various formations of Egyptian Christianity that developed in the domestic sphere, the worlds of holy men and saints’ shrines, the work of craftsmen and artisans, the culture of monastic scribes, and the reimagination of the landscape itself, through processions, architecture, and the potent remains of the past. Drawing on sermons and magical texts, saints’ lives and figurines, letters and amulets, and comparisons with Christianization elsewhere in the Roman empire and beyond, Christianizing Egypt reconceives religious change—from the “conversion” of hearts and minds to the selective incorporation and application of strategies for protection, authority, and efficacy, and for imagining the environment.

Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers
Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers

Author: Anna M. Sitz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0197666434

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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2017, under the title: The writing on the wall: inscriptions and memory in the temples of late antique Greece and Asia Minor.

Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus
Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9004410805

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This volume is part of the Berlin Topoi project re-examing the early Christian history of Asia Minor, Greece and the South Balkans, and is concerned with the emergence of Christianity in Asia Minor and in Cyprus. Five essays focus on the east Anatolian provinces, including a comprehensive evaluation of early Christianity in Cappadocia, a comparative study of the Christian poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus and his anonymous epigraphic contemporaries and three essays which pay special attention to the hagiography of Cappadocia and Armenia Minor. The remaining essays include a new analysis of the role of Constantinople in episcopal elections across Asia Minor, a detailed appraisal of the archaeological evidence from Sagalassus in Pisidia, a discussion of the significance of inscriptions in Carian sanctuaries through late antiquity, and a survey of Christian inscriptions from Cyprus.