RT Book
T1 Religious violence in the ancient world: from classical Athens to late antiquity
A2 Dijkstra, Jitse H. F. 1976-
A2 Raschle, Christian Rudolf 1970-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1736006444
AB 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.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Sep 2020)
SN 9781108860215
SN 9781108494908
SN 9781108816557
K1 Violence : Religious aspects : History
K1 Violence ; Religious aspects ; History
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
DO 10.1017/9781108860215