Religious Violence in the Ancient World

From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity

Jitse H. F. Dijkstra, Christian R. Raschle (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49490-8 (ISBN)

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The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced picture is offered, grounded in recent cutting-edge research. Of interest to scholars of Graeco-Roman religions and Late Antiquity, historians of early Christianity and historians of religion.

Much like our world today, Late Antiquity (fourth-seventh centuries CE) is often seen as a period rife with religious violence, not least because the literary sources are full of stories of Christians attacking temples, statues and 'pagans'. However, using insights from Religious Studies, recent studies have demonstrated that the Late Antique sources disguise a much more intricate reality. The present volume builds on this recent cutting-edge scholarship on religious violence in Late Antiquity in order to come to more nuanced judgments about the nature of the violence. At the same time, the focus on Late Antiquity has taken away from the fact that the phenomenon was no less prevalent in the earlier Graeco-Roman world. This book is therefore the first to bring together scholars with expertise ranging from classical Athens to Late Antiquity to examine the phenomenon in all its complexity and diversity throughout Antiquity.

JITSE H.F. DIJKSTRA is Professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa. His research centres on the process of religious transformation in Late Antiquity, in particular in its Egyptian context. He is the author of numerous studies on the subject, including the monograph Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298–642 CE) (2008). CHRISTIAN R. RASCHLE is Associate Professor of Roman History at the Université de Montréal. He specializes in the history of the administration and political system of the Roman Empire, especially the reorganization of its provinces in Late Antiquity, and themes in the cultural history of the first century CE (Lucan).

1. General introduction Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Christian R. Raschle; I. Methodology: 2. Sacred prefigurations of violence: Religious communities in situations of conflict Hans G. Kippenberg; 3. Priestesses, pogroms and persecutions: Religious violence in antiquity in a diachronic perspective Jan N. Bremmer; II. Religious Violence in The Graeco-Roman world: 4. Ancient Greek binding spells and (political) violence Esther Eidinow; 5. The expulsion of Isis worshippers and astrologers from Rome in the late republic and early empire Christian R. Raschle; 6. Religious violence? two massacres on a Sabbath in 66 CE: Jerusalem and Caesarea Steve Mason; 7. Religion, violence and the diasporic experience: The Jewish diaspora in Flavian Rome and Puteoli Andreas Bendlin; 8. Animal sacrifice and the Roman persecution of Christians (Second–Third Centuries) James B. Rives; 9. The great persecution and imperial ideology: Patterns of communication on Tetrarchic Coinage Erika Manders; 10. The violent legacy of constantine's Militant Piety Elizabeth Depalma Digeser; III: Religious violence in late antiquity: 11. Religious violence in late antiquity: Current approaches, trends and issues Wendy Mayer; 12. Coercion in late antiquity: A brief intellectual history Peter Van Nuffelen; 13. Crowd Behaviour and the Destruction of the Serapeum at Alexandria in 391/392 CE Jitse H.F. Dijkstra; 14. Violence and Monks: From a Mystical Concept to an Intolerant Practice (Fourth–Fifth Centuries) Fabrizio Vecoli; 15. The discipline of domination: Asceticism, violence and monastic curses in Theodoret's Historia Religiosa Chris L. De Wet; 16. Suffering saints: Shaping narratives of violence after chalcedon Christine Shepardson; 17. Fighting for Chalcedon: Vitalian's rebellion against Anastasius Hugh Elton; 18. The Emperor, the people and urban violence in the fifth and sixth centuries Geoffrey Greatrex.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises; 12 Plates, color
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	800 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-108-49490-0 / 1108494900
ISBN-13	978-1-108-49490-8 / 9781108494908
Zustand	Neuware