Religious competition in the Greco-Roman world

Religious competition in the Greco-Roman world / edited by Nathaniel P. DesRosiers and Lily C. Vuong.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Society of Biblical Literature. Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature. Religious Competition in Late Antiquity Unit
Other Authors: DesRosiers, Nathaniel P. (Editor), Vuong, Lily C., 1978- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2016]
Series:Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; no. 10.
Subjects:
30-600
Christianity and other religions > Congresses.
Christianity and other religions > Roman > History > Congresses.
Christianity and other religions > Greek > History > Congresses.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 > Congresses.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
Christianity
Christianity and other religions
Church history
Church history > Primitive and early church
Greeks > Religion
Interfaith relations
Religion
Romans > Religion
Rome > Religion > History > Congresses.
Greece > Religion > History > Congresses.
Greece
Rome (Empire)
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Conflict, cooperation, and competition in antiquity / Nathaniel P. DesRosiers and Lily C. Vuong
  • Part 1. Competition and material culture. Introduction: competition and material culture through real and imagined spaces / Gregg E. Gardner
  • The perils of idolatrous garb: Tertullian and Christian belonging in Roman Carthage / Carly Daniel-Hughes
  • The philosopher type in late Roman art: problematizing cultural appropriation in light of cultural competition / Arthur P. Urbano Jr.
  • Suns, snakes, and altars: competitive imagery in Constantinian numismatics / Nathaniel P. DesRosiers
  • "Built from the plunder of Christians": words, places, and competing powers in Milan and Callinicum / Catherin M. Chin
  • Part 2. Competition and Neoplatonism. Introduction: defining competition in Neoplatonism / Todd Krulak
  • Origen's allegoresis of Plato's and scripture's "myths" / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
  • The Neoplatonic transmission of ancient wisdom / Gregory Shaw
  • Julian's philosophy and his religious program / Laura B. Dingeldein
  • Part 3. Religious experts and popular religion. Introduction: competition between experts and nonexperts / Daniel Ullucci
  • Why expert versus nonexpert is not elite versus popular religion: the case of the third century / Stanley K. Stowers
  • Great is the mystery of piety: contested claims to piety in Plutarch, Philo, and 1 Timothy / T. Christopher Hoklotubbe
  • Nuptial imagery, Christian devotion, and the marriage debate in late Roman society / Karl Shuve
  • Competing for the competitors: Jewish and Christian responses to spectacle / Loren R. Spielman
  • Part 4. Competiton and relics. Introduction: the competition for relics in late antiquity / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • Relics? what relics? / Mary Joan Winn Leith and Allyson Everingham Sheckler
  • A hair's breadth: the prophet Muhammad's hair as relic in early Islamic texts / Adam Bursi
  • Promoting a cult site without bodily relics: sacred substances and imagined topography in The Syriac life of Symeon the Stylite / Dina Boero
  • From Asclepius to Simeon: votives and sacred healing in late antiquity / Gary Vikan.

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