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Author | : J. B. Rives |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage from Augustus to Constantine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the organization of religion in the Roman empire from Augustus to Constantine. Although there have been illuminating particular studies of the relationship between religious activity and socio-political authority in the empire, there has been no large-scale attempt to assess it as a whole. Taking as his focus the situation in Carthage, the greatest city of the western provinces, J. B. Rives argues that traditional religion, predicated on the structure of a city-state, could not serve to integrate individuals into an empire. In upholding traditional religion, the government abandoned the sort of political control of religious behaviour characteristic of the Roman Republic, and allowed people to determine their own religious identities. The importance of Christianity was thus that it provided the model for a new type of religious control suited to the needs of the increasingly homogeneous Roman empire.
Author | : Allen Brent |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2010-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521515475 |
Download Cyprian and Roman Carthage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores Cyprian in his intellectual and political context of mid-third-century AD Carthage.
Author | : James B. Rives |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2006-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781405106559 |
Download Religion in the Roman Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western Europe Examines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics that characterized religious life as a whole Draws on a wide range of primary material, both textual and visual, from literary works, inscriptions and monuments Offers insight into the religious world in which contemporary rabbinic Judaism and Christianity both had their origin
Author | : James B. Rives |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2006-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405106565 |
Download Religion in the Roman Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western Europe Examines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics that characterized religious life as a whole Draws on a wide range of primary material, both textual and visual, from literary works, inscriptions and monuments Offers insight into the religious world in which contemporary rabbinic Judaism and Christianity both had their origin
Author | : Matthew Alan Gaumer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2016-03-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004312641 |
Download Augustine’s Cyprian Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Augustine’s Cyprian retraces the demise of Donatist Christianity in ancient North Africa. Set during the Roman Empire’s collapse, this work accounts how Augustine of Hippo initiated one of the most prolific re-appropriations of authority in ancient Christianity: Cyprian of Carthage.
Author | : J. B. Rives |
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Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Download Religion and Authority in the Territory of Roman Carthage from Augustus to Constantine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : David E. Wilhite |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2011-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110926261 |
Download Tertullian the African Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Who was Tertullian, and what can we know about him? This work explores his social identities, focusing on his North African milieu. Theories from the discipline of social/cultural anthropology, including kinship, class and ethnicity, are accommodated and applied to selections of Tertullian’s writings. In light of postcolonial concerns, this study utilizes the categories of Roman colonizers, indigenous Africans and new elites. The third category, new elites, is actually intended to destabilize the other two, denying any “essential” Roman or African identity. Thereafter, samples from Tertullian’s writings serve to illustrate comparisons of his own identities and the identities of his rhetorical opponents. The overall study finds Tertullian’s identities to be manifold, complex and discursive. Additionally, his writings are understood to reflect antagonism toward Romans, including Christian Romans (which is significant for his so-called Montanism), and Romanized Africans. While Tertullian accommodates much from Graeco-Roman literature, laws and customs, he nevertheless retains a strongly stated non-Roman-ness and an African-ity, which is highlighted in the present monograph.
Author | : Peter Brown |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1997-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521595575 |
Download Authority and the Sacred Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
His illuminating analysis of religious change as the art of the possible has a wide relevance for other periods and regions.
Author | : Craige B. Champion |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2017-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691174857 |
Download The Peace of the Gods Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Peace of the Gods takes a new approach to the study of Roman elites' religious practices and beliefs, using current theories in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, as well as cultural and literary studies. Craige Champion focuses on what the elites of the Middle Republic (ca. 250–ca. 100 BCE) actually did in the religious sphere, rather than what they merely said or wrote about it, in order to provide a more nuanced and satisfying historical reconstruction of what their religion may have meant to those who commanded the Roman world and its imperial subjects. The book examines the nature and structure of the major priesthoods in Rome itself, Roman military commanders' religious behaviors in dangerous field conditions, and the state religion's acceptance or rejection of new cults and rituals in response to external events that benefited or threatened the Republic. According to a once-dominant but now-outmoded interpretation of Roman religion that goes back to the ancient Greek historian Polybius, the elites didn't believe in their gods but merely used religion to control the masses. Using that interpretation as a counterfactual lens, Champion argues instead that Roman elites sincerely tried to maintain Rome's good fortune through a pax deorum or "peace of the gods." The result offers rich new insights into the role of religion in elite Roman life.
Author | : Jan Willem Drijvers |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004295917 |
Download Portraits of Spiritual Authority Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume deals with several figures of spiritual authority in Christianity during late antiquity and the early middle ages, and seeks to illuminate the way in which the struggle for religious influence evolved with changes in church and society. A number of literary portraits are examined, portraits which, in various literary genres, are themselves designed to establish and propagate the authority of the people whose lives and activities they describe. The sequence begins with visionary and prophetic figures of the second and third centuries, proceeds through several testimonies from the fourth century to the power of holy persons, moves on to Syriac portraits of the fifth to seventh centuries, and ends with the demise of the authority of the holy man in the eighth.