Title 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

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 561 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Late antique archaeology, 1570-6893 ; v. 6 Late antique archaeology ; v. 6. 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 Summary Contributors are David M. Gwynn, Susanne Bangert, Jodi Magness, Zeev Weiss, Shimon Dar, Michel-Yves Perrin, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Lukas Amadeus Schachner, Arja Karivieri, Carla Sfameni, Claude Lepelley, Mark Humphries, Elizabeth Jeffreys, and Isabella Sandwell. --Book Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English text; abstracts in French Print version record In EBL Subject Religion -- History. Religions -- History Civilization, Ancient. religious history. RELIGION -- History. Civilization, Ancient Religion Religions Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Gwynn, David M. (David Morton), 1975- Bangert, Susanne Lavan, Luke ISBN 9789047444534 9047444531 1282951319 9781282951310

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