TY  - BOOK
AU  - North,John A.
AU  - Price,S.R.F.
TI  - The religious history of the Roman Empire: pagans, Jews, and Christians 
T2  - Oxford readings in classical studies
SN  - 9780199567348
AV  - BL803 .R62 2011
U1  - 292.07 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - swd
KW  - Rome
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Römisches Reich
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [564]-571) and index; 1: Changes in religious life : Roman and civic cults. Roman religion and the religion of empire : some reflections on method / Jörg Rüpke ; The Roman imperial cult and the question of power / Richard Gordon ; Magic in Roman law : the reconstruction of a crime / J. B. Rives ; New combinations and new statuses : the indigenous gods in the pantheons of the cities of Roman Gaul / William Van Andringa ; Hypsistos : a way of exalting the gods in Graeco-Roman polytheism / Nicole Belayche ; On the uses and disadvantages of divination : oracles and their literary representations in the time of the Second Sophistic / Andreas Bendlin -- 2: Elective cults. Homogeneity and diversity in the religions of Rome / Simon Price ; Mysteries and Oriental cults : a problem in the history of religions / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro ; Ritual and hierarchy in the Mysteries of Mithras / Richard Gordon ; Community and community : reflections on some ambiguities based on the 'Thiasoí' of Roman Egypt / John Scheid -- 3: Co-existence of religions, old and new. Acculturation and identitiy in the Diaspora : a Jewish family and 'pagan' guilds at Hiersapolis / Philip Harland ; Josephus and variety in first-century Judaism / Martin Goodman ; The forging of Christian identity and the 'Letter to Diognetus' / Judith Lieu ; Purification and its discontents : Mani's rejection of baptism / Guy G. Stroumsa ; Pagans, polytheiests, and the pendulum / J. A. North -- 4: Late Antiquity. Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire / Averil Cameron ; Enjoying the saints in Late Antiquity / Peter Brown
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