Religious diversity in late antiquity
By: edited by David M. Gwynn and Susanne Bangert ; conceived and co-ordinated by Luke Lavan ; with the assistance of Carlos Machado and Michael Mulryan.
Contributors: Gwynn, David M. 1975-; Bangert, Susanne.; Lavan, Luke.
Series: Late antique archaeology -- v. 6
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9789004180000
Subjects: Religion -- History; Religions -- History; Civilization, Ancient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

English text; abstracts in French.
Table of contents: title: Religious diversity in late antiquity : an introduction / David M. Gwynn and Susanne Bangert; title: Religious diversity in late antiquity : a bibliographic essay / David M. Gwynn; title: Jews and Samaritans; title: Third century Jews and Judaism at Beth Shearim and Dura Europus / Jodi Magness; title: Artistic trends and contact between Jews and 'others' in late antique sepphoris : recent research / Zeev Weiss; title: Archaeological aspects of Samaritan research in Israel / Shimon Dar; title: Orthodoxy and heresy; title: The limits of the heresiological ethos in late antiquity / Michel-Yves Perrin; title: Archaeology and the 'Aian controversy' in the fourth century / David M. Gwynn; title: Where is the archaeology and iconography of Germanic Arianism? / Bryan Ward-Perkins; title: Popular piety; title: The archaeology of pilgrimage : Abu Mina and beyond / Susanne Bangert; title: The archaeology of the stylite / Lukas Amadeus Schachner; title: Magic and religion; title: Magic and syncretic religious culture in the East / Arja Karivieri; title: Magic in late antiquity : the evidence of magical gems / Carla Sfameni; title: Sacred and secular; title: The use of secularised Latin pagan culture by Christians / Claude Lepelley; title: 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; title: Literary genre or religious apathy : the presence or absence of theology and religious thought in secular writing in the late antique East / Elizabeth Jeffreys; title: John Chrysostom's audiences and his accusations of religious laxity / Isabella Sandwell.