Social networks in the early Christian environment
Subtitle: issues and methods for social history
By: guest editor, L. Michael White
Series: Semeia -- 56; Semeia -- 56
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Social networks; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Rome -- Religion
Notes: Cover date is 1991

Includes bibliographical references (p[179]-202)
Table of contents: value: Finding ties that bind / L. Michael White; value: Social networks : theoretical orientation and historical applications / L. Michael White; value: Benefactor/patronage networks in the urban environment / Holland Hendrix; value: Oracles and their society / Thomas L. Robinson; value: Elite networks and heresy accusations / Elizabeth A. Clark; value: "By the gods, it's my desire to see an actual Stoic" / Ronald F. Hock; value: Christ as patron in the Acts of Peter / Robert F. Stoops, Jr.; value: Epidemics, networks, and the rise of Christianity / Rodney Stark