Religious diversity in late antiquity / / edited by David M. Gwynn and Susanne Bangert ; conceived and co-ordinated by Luke Lavan ; with the assistance of Carlos Machado and Michael Mulryan.

This new volume in the well-established Late Antique Archaeology series draws together recent research by archaeologists and historians to shed new light on the religious world of Late Antiquity. A detailed bibliographic essay provides an overview of relevant literature, while individual articles ex...

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Superior document:Late antique archaeology, v. 6
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Late antique archaeology ; v. 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (579 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Religious diversity in late antiquity : an introduction / David M. Gwynn and Susanne Bangert
  • Religious diversity in late antiquity : a bibliographic essay / David M. Gwynn
  • Jews and Samaritans
  • Third century Jews and Judaism at Beth Shearim and Dura Europus / Jodi Magness
  • Artistic trends and contact between Jews and 'others' in late antique Sepphoris : recent research / Zeev Weiss
  • Archaeological aspects of Samaritan research in Israel / Shimon Dar
  • Orthodoxy and heresy
  • The limits of the heresiological ethos in late antiquity / Michel-Yves Perrin
  • Archaeology and the 'Arian controversy' in the fourth century / David M. Gwynn
  • Where is the archaeology and iconography of Germanic Arianism? / Bryan Ward-Perkins
  • Popular piety
  • The archaeology of pilgrimage : Abu Mina and beyond / Susanne Bangert
  • The archaeology of the stylite / Lukas Amadeus Schachner
  • Magic and religion
  • Magic and syncretic religious culture in the East / Arja Karivieri
  • Magic in late antiquity : the evidence of magical gems / Carla Sfameni
  • Sacred and secular
  • The use of secularised Latin pagan culture by Christians / Claude Lepelley
  • The sacred and the secular : the presence or absence of Christian religious thought in secular writing in the late antique West / Mark Humphries with David M. Gwynn
  • Literary genre or religious apathy? : the presence or absence of theology and religious thought in secular writing in the late antique East / Elizabeth Jeffreys
  • John Chrysostom's audiences and his accusations of religious laxity / Isabella Sandwell.