Religious Identity in Late Antiquity - Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch

Klappentext This text offers an approach to understanding religious interaction in the fourth century AD. Zusammenfassung Offers an approach to understanding religious interaction in the fourth century AD. The text tackles the fundamental question of attitudes to religious identity by exploring how the Christian preacher John Chrysostom and the Graeco-Roman orator Libanius wrote about and understood issues of religious allegiance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Understanding religious identity in fourth century Antioch; 2. Imperial society, religion and literary culture in fourth century Antioch; Part II. Constructed and Strategic Religious Identities and Allegiances, an Introduction: 3. Chrysostom and the construction of religious identities; 4. Libanius and the strategic use of religious allegiance; Part III. Religious Identities and Other Forms of Social Identification, an Introduction: 5. Religious identity and other social identities in Chrysostom; 6. Religious allegiance and other social identities in Libanius; Part IV. Religious Identities and Social Organization, an Introduction: 7. Chrysostom and social structure among Christians in Antioch; 8. Libanius, religious allegiance and social structure; Part V. Assessing the Impact of Constructions of Identity, an Introduction: 9. Religious identity, religious allegiance and religious practice; 10. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Isabella Sandwell, Isabella (University of Bristol) Sandwell, Sandwell Isabella
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521296915
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29691-5
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World; Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith, Christianity, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Church history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Religion and beliefs