Religious Violence in the Ancient World : From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity
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Raschle, Christian R.
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Dijkstra, Jitse H. F. , [HerausgeberIn] |
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Cambridge :
University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations,
2020.
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1 online resource (448 pages) |
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Dijkstra, Jitse H. F., Religious Violence in the Ancient World : From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (Print version:) | ISSN: 9781108494908 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- A Note on Abbreviations
- General Introduction
- Situation in Current Research and Themes of the Volume
- Overview of Contributions to the Volume
- Part I Methodology
- Chapter 1 Sacred Prefigurations of Violence: Religious Communities in Situations of Conflict
- Introduction: A Causal Relationship between Religion and Violence?
- A Contemporary Case of the Link between Religious Communities and Violence: The 9/11 Attack as a Ghazwa of Muhammad
- An Ancient Case of the Link between Religious Communities and Violence: The Violent Zeal of Phinehas for the Observation of God's Covenant with Israel
- The Thomas Theorem
- Jewish and Muslim Definitions of the Middle East Conflict
- Conclusion: Methodological Rules for the Investigation of the Relationship between Religious Communities and Acts of Violence
- Chapter 2 Priestesses, Pogroms and Persecutions: Religious Violence in Antiquity in a Diachronic Perspective
- Introduction
- Socrates and Phryne
- The 'Pogrom' of Alexandria in ad 38
- The Roman Persecutions
- Christian Cultural Violence: The Case of Gaza
- Conclusion
- Part II Religious Violence in the Graeco-Roman World
- Chapter 3 Ancient Greek Binding Spells and (Political) Violence
- Introduction: Cultures of Terror
- Current Approaches
- A Body in Parts
- A Political Discourse
- Subjectivation
- Conclusion: Bodies Politic
- Chapter 4 The Expulsion of Isis Worshippers and Astrologers from Rome in the Late Republic and Early Empire
- Introduction
- The Cults of Isis and Sarapis
- Astrology
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 Religious Violence? Two Massacres on a Sabbath in 66 ce: Jerusalem and Caesarea
- Introduction
- Context, Method and Possible Stakes
- Two Massacres: Josephus' War.
- Narrative and Real Life - Generally and in Caesarea
- Conflict in Jerusalem - and Massacre
- Conclusions: Life vs. Narrative, Judaeans vs. Romans, Religious vs. Other Violence
- Chapter 6 Religion, Violence and the Diasporic Experience: The Jewish Diaspora in Flavian Rome and Puteoli
- Introduction: Violence and Religion before Later Antiquity
- Enlightened Polytheists and Monotheistic Zealots, or: Why Religion and Violence Must Be Disaggregated
- Different Manifestations of Violence
- Cultural Violence and Religion: IVDAEA CAPTA
- Victims of Violence
- The Promotion of Particularism and the Permanence of Structural Violence
- Gods as Foreigners
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7 Animal Sacrifice and the Roman Persecution of Christians (Second to Third Century)
- Introduction
- The Role of Animal Sacrifice in Trials of Christians Prior to Decius
- Animal Sacrifice in the Decree of Decius
- The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice
- Christian Responses to the Decree of Decius
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8 The Great Persecution and Imperial Ideology: Patterns of Communication on Tetrarchic Coinage
- Explaining the Outbreak of the Great Persecution
- Tetrarchic Coinage: The General Picture
- Tetrarchic Coinage: Religious Representation
- Coins and the Great Persecution
- Appendix 1 Messages Propagated on the Coin Types of Severus, Gallienus, Diocletian and Galerius
- Appendix 2 Messages on the Coin Types of the Tetrarchs, 284-313
- Chapter 9 The Violent Legacy of Constantine's Militant Piety
- Introduction
- Images of Christians and Emperors
- Lactantius' Portrayal of Constantine
- Constantine and the Gauls
- Conclusion
- Part III Religious Violence in Late Antiquity
- Chapter 10 Religious Violence in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches, Trends and Issues
- Introduction
- Religious Violence as a Category
- Rhetoric and Reality.
- Making Sense of Religious Violence
- Chapter 11 Coercion in Late Antiquity: A Brief Intellectual History
- Introduction
- A Late Ancient Concept of Coercion
- A Brief Intellectual History
- Augustine on Coercion by the State
- Conclusions
- Chapter 12 Crowd Behaviour and the Destruction of the Serapeum at Alexandria in 391/392 ce
- Introduction
- Crowd Behaviour and Social Psychological Models
- Previous Scholarship on the Serapeum Incident
- Crowd Behaviour and the Serapeum Incident
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13 Violence and Monks: From a Mystical Concept to an Intolerant Practice (Fourth to Fifth Century)
- Ancient Monasticism and Factual Violence
- Theoretical Issues
- Ancient Monasticism and Ascetic Violence
- Monastic Exegesis of Matthew 11:12
- Conclusion
- Chapter 14 The Discipline of Domination: Asceticism, Violence and Monastic Curses in Theodoret's Historia Religiosa
- Introduction
- Asceticism and/as Dominance: Theodoret's Ascetic Discourse and the Violence of the Self
- The Monastic Curse: A Violent Asceticisation of the Other
- The Death Curse: The Zenith of Ascetic Dominance and Radical Anti-Asceticism
- Conclusion
- Chapter 15 Suffering Saints: Shaping Narratives of Violence after Chalcedon
- Introduction
- Victims of Violence: Early Anti-Chalcedonian Narratives of Imperial Persecution
- Witnesses for Christ: Expanding the Scope of Meaningful Suffering
- John of Ephesus: Violence in Anti-Chalcedonian Rhetoric after Justinian
- Conclusion
- Chapter 16 Fighting for Chalcedon: Vitalian's Rebellion against Anastasius
- Introduction
- The Religious Background to Vitalian's Revolt
- Late Antique Generals and Religious Politics
- The Sources for Vitalian's Revolt
- Vitalian's Revolt
- Reframing the Historical Record
- Conclusion.
- Chapter 17 The Emperor, the People and Urban Violence in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
- Introduction
- Urban Violence, the Factions and the Church: Recent Research
- The Causes of the Weakening of the Emperor's Position
- The Consequences of the Weakening of the Emperor's Position
- Conclusion
- Index of Sources
- General Index.
