Religious dissent in late antiquity, 350-450 / Maijastina Kahlos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahlos, Maijastina, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in late antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dissenters, Religious--Rome.

Dissenters, Religious.

Paganism--Rome.

Paganism.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Religion.

Rome--Religious life and customs.

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

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Genre:

Church history.

Physical Description:

xiv, 274 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Contents:

Section I Imperial and ecclesiastical authority

1 The emperor and the dissenters p. 17

The rhetoric of public welfare and divine peace p. 17

Imperial striving for unity p. 24

2 The realities of legislation p. 27

Sound and fury p. 28

Good citizens and infamous dissenters p. 30

The realities of responsive legislation p. 33

The local realities of legislation p. 36

3 The bishops and the dissenters p. 40

Coping with diversity p. 41

Coping with the emperor p. 44

4 The local limits of imperial and ecclesiastical power p. 50

Patronage and local landowners p. 51

Laxity or tolerance? p. 54

5 Authority and aggression p. 57

The narrative of Christian triumphalism p. 59

Triumph as legitimation p. 63

Vigour and violence p. 67

Initiating aggression p. 68

Supporting aggression p. 72

Controlling, punishing, and criticizing aggression p. 74

Imperial and ecclesiastical authority: Concluding remarks p. 79

Section II People in rhetoric and realities

6 Individuals, groups, and plural possibilities in Late Antiquity p. 85

Naming, listing, and labelling p. 88

'Christians' and Christian self-perception p. 90

7 Otherness outside: Making pagans p. 92

Who were pagans? Stereotypes and realities p. 94

Flesh-and-blood pagans? p. 97

The first or last pagans? The self-perception of pagans p. 100

8 Deviance or otherness inside: Construing heretics p. 105

The making of heresies-and orthodoxy p. 106

Making Arians p. 111

Making Donatists 114

Making Pelagians 116

Heretics and social reality p. 118

Accommodation: Conversion and conformity p. 122

Non-violent resistance: Eloquent appeals p. 124

Non-violent resistance: Silence and self-segregation p. 127

Confrontations: Verbal and physical violence p. 131

People in rhetoric and realities: Some conclusions p. 134

Section III Time, place, practices

10 The transformation of practices p. 139

In search of local religion p. 140

Sacrifices in Late Antiquity p. 144

The abhorrence of sacrifice p. 147

The realities of pollution? p. 151

Disappearances, continuities, and adaptations p. 154

11 Economics of practices p. 158

Competing for resources p. 159

Competing philanthropic practices p. 161

Blaming civic philanthropy p. 165

12 Sacred places and spaces p. 168

Shared cult places p. 170

Rhetoric of purification and reality of aesthetization p. 172

13 Sacred times and spaces p. 176

Feasts and spectacles p. 178

Christians and the New Year p. 180

The reality of popular needs p. 184

Funerary and martyr cults: Complaints and realities p. 187

14 Rhetoric and realities of magic p. 195

Dissenters and magic accusations p. 197

Roman suspicions and Christian fears p. 200

From traditional civic rituals to magic p. 204

From dissent Christianity to magic p. 206

Your magic, my miracle p. 207

Time, place, practices: Some conclusions p. 211

Authority: Attempts to control and define p. 215

People: Attempts to categorize people p. 216

Practices: Attempts to control practices p. 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780190067250

019006725X

OCLC:

1121294837

Publisher Number:

99983651830