Religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity / Leif E. Vaage, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vaage, Leif E.

Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.

Series:

Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 18.

Studies in Christiantiy and Judaism /Etudes sur le christianisme et le Judaismejudaisme ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions--Roman.

Christianity and other religions.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question of social rivalry. The book is divided into three main sections. The first section debates the degree to which the category of rivalry adequately names the issue(s) that must be addressed when comparing and contrasting the social ""success"" of different religious groups in antiquity. The second is a critical assessment of the common modern category of ""mission"" to describ

Contents:

Ancient religious rivalries and the struggle for success: Christians, Jews, and others in the early Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage

Declining polis? Religious rivalries in ancient civic context / Philip A. Harland

Rivalry and defection / Stephen G. Wilson

Is the pagan fair fairly dangerous? Jewish-pagan relations in antiquity / Reena Basser

My rival, my fellow: conceptual and methodological prolegomena to mapping inter-religious relations in 2nd- and 3rd-century CE Levantine society using the evidence of early rabbinic texts / Jack N. Lightstone

"The field God has assigned": geography and mission in Paul / Terence L. Donaldson

Contra Apionem in social and literary context: an invitation to Judean philosophy / Steve Mason

On becoming a Mithraist: new evidence for the propagation of the mysteries / Roger Beck

Rodney Stark and "the mission to the Jews" / Adele Reinhartz

"Look how they love one another": early Christian and pagan care for the sick and other charity / Steven C. Muir

Religious market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianity's pagan competition / Roger Beck

Why Christianity succeeded (in) the Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references:p. 279-304.

ISBN:

9786610465620

9781280465628

128046562X

9780889205369

0889205361

9781423785613

1423785614

OCLC:

753479604