Handbook of early Christianity
Subtitle: social science approaches
By: edited by Anthony J. Blasi, Jean Duhaime and Paul-André Turcotte
Contributors: Blasi, Anthony J; Turcotte, Paul-André, 1943-; Duhaime, Jean
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 802
Subjects: Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Religion and sociology -- Rome
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 643-751) and indexes
Table of contents: value: Social sciences studying formative Christian phenomena : a creative movement / David G. Horrell; value: Major social scientific theories : origins, development, and contributions / Paul-André Turcotte; value: General methodological perspective / Anthony J. Blasi; value: Archaeological and architectural issues and the question of demographic and urban forms / Carolyn Osiek; value: An illustration of historical inquiry : histories of Jesus and Matthew I.1-25 / Ritva H. Williams; value: Literary source and redaction criticism / Steven L. Bridge; value: Statistical textual analysis : a special technique / Robert A. Wortham; value: Aspects of rhetorical analysis applied to New Testament texts / Ernst R. Wendland; value: Structuralism and symbolic universes : Second Temple Judaism and the early Christian movement / Peter Staples; value: Early Christianity as an unorganized ecumenical religious movement / Frederick Bird; value: Jesus and Palestinian social protest : archaeological and literary perspectives / Peter Richardson and Douglas Edwards; value: Civilizational encounters in the development of early Christianity / Donald A. Nielsen; value: Early Christian culture as interaction / Anthony J. Blasi; value: "Becoming Christian" : solidifying Christian identity and content / David G. Horrell; value: Sociological insights into the development of Christian leadership roles and community formation / Howard Clark Kee; value: Establishing social distance between Christian and both Jews and pagans / Jack T. Sanders; value: Connections with elites in the world of the early Christians / Philip A. Harland; value: Government and public law in Galilee, Judaea, Hellenistic cities, and the Roman Empire / John W. Marshall and Russell Martin; value: Persecution / Harold Remus; value: Vulnerable power : the Roman empire challenged by the early Christians / Warren Carter; value: The limits of ethnic categories / Nicola Denzey; value: The economy of first-century Palestine : state of the scholarly discussion / Philip A. Harland; value: Modes and relations of production / Dimitris J. Kyrtatas; value: What would you do for a living? / David A. Fiensy; value: Conflicting bases of identity in early Christianity : the example of Paul / Nicholas H. Taylor; value: Dread of the community : a psychoanalytical study of fratricidal conflict in the context of first-century Palestine / Richard K. Fenn; value: Conversion in early Christianity / Jack T. Sanders