Religious competition in the Greco-Roman world
Ancient Sources IndexModern Authors Index; Subject Index
| Summary: | Ancient Sources IndexModern Authors Index; Subject Index Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Conflict, Cooperation, and Competition in Antiquity ; Part 1: Competition and Material Culture; Introduction: Competition and Material Culture through Real and Imagined Spaces ; The Perils of Idolatrous Garb; The Philosopher Type in Late Roman Art; Suns, Snakes, and Altars; "Built from the Plunder of Christians"; Part 2: Competition and Neoplatonism; Introduction: Defining Competition in Neoplatonism; Origen's Allegoresis of Plato's and Scripture ""Myths"" ; The Neoplatonic Transmission of Ancient Wisdom Julian's Philosophy and His Religious ProgramPart 3: Religious Experts and Popular Religion; Introduction: Competition Between Experts and Nonexperts; Why Expert versus Nonexpert Is Not Elite versus Popular Religion; Great Is the Mystery of Piety; Nuptial Imagery, Christian Devotion, and the Marriage Debate in Late Roman Society ; Competing for the Competitors; Part 4: Competition and Relics; Introduction: The Competition for Relics in Late Antiquity; Relics? What Relics?; A Hair's Breadth; Promoting a Cult Site without Bodily Relics; From Asclepius to Simeon; Bibliography; Contributors |
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| Item Description: | "Papers represented in this volume were delivered at the Society of Biblical Literature's Religious Competition in Late Antiquity unit between 2012 and 2014 ... over thirty papers presented at the Society of Biblilcal Literature annual meeting"--Introduction. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record |
| ISBN: | 0884141578 |