Religion and competition in antiquity
By: [edited by] David Engels and Peter van Nuffelen
Contributors: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
Series: Collection Latomus -- volume 343; Collection Latomus -- v. 343.
Publisher: Éditions Latomus
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bruxelles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9782870312902; 9782870312903
Subjects: Ancient Civilization; Religion and culture; Christianity and culture; Religions; Religion; Early church; Congresses; Wettbewerb; History
Description: "The notion of competition has become crucial to our understanding of Greek and Roman religion and is often invoked to explain religous changes and to describe the relationship between various cults. This volume seeks to raise our awareness of what the notion implies and to test its use for the analysis of ancient religions. The papers range from Classical Greece, Hellenistic Babylon, Rome and the Etruscans, to Late Antiquity and the rise of Islam. They seek to determine how much can be gained in each individual case by understanding religious interaction in terms of rivalry and competition. In doing so, the volume hopes to open a more explicit debate on the analytical tools with which ancient religion is currently being studied."--
Notes: Papers presented at a workshop of the same title, held October 9, 2010, at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Religion and competition in antiquity :; title: an introduction  -- David Engels, Peter van Nuffelen; title: Religious rivalry in Seleucid Babylonia :; title: Marduk of Babylon versus Anu of Uruk  -- Tom Boiy; title: Oracles and oracle-sellers :; title: an ancient market in futures  -- Esther Eidinow; title: Liberty versus religious tradition :; title: some "impious" thinkers in ancient Greece  -- Aikaterini Lefka; title: Etrusca disciplina and Roman religion :; title: from initial hesitation to a privileged place  -- Dominique Briquel; title: Cohabitation or competition in Ostia under the Empire?  -- Françoise van Haeperen; title: The end of open competition? :; title: religious disputations in late antiquity  -- Peter van Nuffelen; title: Competing coenobites :; title: food and drink in the Lives of Theodoretus of Cyrrhus  -- Veit Rosenberger; title: A time for prayer and a time for pleasure :; title: Christianity's struggle with the secular world  -- Ine Jacobs; title: The conquest of the past :; title: Christian attitudes towards civic history  -- Aude Busine; title: Historising religion between spiritual continuity and friendly takeover :; title: salvation history and religious competition during the first millennium A.D.  -- David Engels; title: Oriental religions and the conversion of the Roman Empire :; title: the views of Ernest Renan and of Franz Cumont on the transition from traditional paganism to Christianity -- Danny Praet.