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

by North, John A; Price, S. R. F.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Oxford readings in classical studies: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: xxi, 577 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780199567348; 0199567344; 9780199567355 (pbk.); 0199567352 (pbk.).Subject(s): Rome -- Religion | Rome -- Religious life and customsOnline resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
1: Changes in religious life : Roman and civic cults. Roman religion and the religion of empire : some reflections on method / Jörg Rupke ; 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 'Thiasoi' 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. 0
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [564]-571) and index.

1: Changes in religious life : Roman and civic cults. Roman religion and the religion of empire : some reflections on method / Jörg Rupke ; 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 'Thiasoi' 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. 0


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