Reconceptualising conversion

Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean

Auteurs

• Zeba A. Crook

Paramètres

• 310 pages
• 11 heures de lecture

• Histoire
• Histoire du monde

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Combining classical, epigraphical, and biblical sources with social-scientific methodology, this monograph questions the way in which modern scholarship has tended to discuss ancient conversion. The author challenges long-held assumptions of psychological continuity between ancient and modern people, and offers in place of these assumptions a model founded on the categories the ancients used themselves. Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean religions and philosophies, including Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity, framed their religion in the language of patronage / benefaction and loyalty, and thus an understanding of ancient conversion must start there.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 2004
• Reliure: (rigide)