Reconceiving Religious Conflict

New Views from the Formative Centuries of Christianity

Wendy Mayer, Chris L. de Wet (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

338 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-22991-4 (ISBN)

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This book deconstructs instances of religious conflict within the formative centuries of Christianity. It explores the theoretical foundations of religious conflict; the dynamics of religious conflict within the context of persecution and martyrdom; and the relationship between religious conflict and religious identity.

Reconceiving Religious Conflict deconstructs instances of religious conflict within the formative centuries of Christianity, the first six centuries CE. It explores the theoretical foundations of religious conflict; the dynamics of religious conflict within the context of persecution and martyrdom; the social and moral intersections that undergird the phenomenon of religious conflict; and the relationship between religious conflict and religious identity. It is unique in that it does not solely focus on religious violence as it is physically manifested, but on religious conflict (and tolerance), looking too at dynamics of religious discourse and practice that often precede and accompany overt religious violence.

Wendy Mayer is Professor and Associate Dean of Research at Australian Lutheran College, University of Divinity, and Research Fellow in Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa. Chris L. de Wet is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the University of South Africa, and Honorary Research Fellow at Australian Lutheran College, University of Divinity.

Preface

Abbreviations

Part 1: Foundations

1. Re-Theorising Religious Conflict: Early Christianity to Late Antiquity and Beyond

Wendy Mayer

2. Religious Violence and Its Roots: A View from Antiquity

Jan Bremmer

Part 2: Rhetorical and Literary Trajectories

3. Blindness in Early Christianity: Tracking the Fundamentals of Religious Conflict

Pieter J. J. Botha

4. Religious Conflict, Radicalism, and Sexual Exceptionalism in the Rhetoric of John Chrysostom

Chris L. de Wet

5. Give it Up for God: Wealth, Suffering, and the Rhetoric of Religious Persecution in

John of Ephesus’s Church History

Christine Shepardson

6. Epiphanies and Religious Conflict: The Contests over the Hagiasma of Chonai

Alan H. Cadwallader

Part 3: Christianization

7. Contested Domains in the Conflicts between the Early Christian Mission and Diaspora Judaism According to the Book of Acts

Christoph Stenschke

8. Christianisation and Late Antique Patronage: Conflicts and Everyday Nuisances

Maijastina Kahlos

Part 4: Threats of Violence

9. "A Wise Madness": A Virtue-Based Model for Crowd Behaviour in Late Antiquity

Peter Van Nuffelen

10. Religious Violence in Late Antique Egypt Reconsidered: The Cases of Alexandria, Panopolis and Philae

Jitse H. F. Dijkstra

Part 5: Ancient and Modern Intersections

11. Collaboration and Identity in the Aftermath of Persecution: Religious Conflict and Its Legacy

Elizabeth DePalma Digeser

12. The Usefulness of Violent Ends: Apocalyptic Imaginaries in the Reconstruction of Society

Gerhard van den Heever

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World
Zusatzinfo	6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	810 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-138-22991-1 / 1138229911
ISBN-13	978-1-138-22991-4 / 9781138229914
Zustand	Neuware