Cults, creeds and identities in the Greek city after the classical age
By: edited by Richard Alston, Onno M. van Nijf & Christina G. Williamson
Series: Groningen-Royal Holloway studies on the Greek city after the Classical Age -- 3; Groningen-Royal Holloway studies on the Greek city after the Classical Age -- 3.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9789042927148
Subjects: Congresses; Religion; Religious life and customs; Civilization; Christian influences; Ancient Cities and towns
Description: "This volume investigates the complex and diverse developments in the religious cultures of Greek cities after the classical age. An international team of scholars considers the continuities of traditional Greek religious practices, and seeks to understand the impact of new influences on those practices, notably the deeper engagement with Judaism and how the emergence of Christianity redefined polis religion. The essays illustrate the inadequacy of 'decline' as a model for understanding Greek religion, exploring how dynamic change in religious life corresponded to the transformations in the Greek city. The volume explores how the citizens of the Greek city after the classical age used religion to construct their cultural identities and political experiences and how many of the features of traditional polis religion survived into and shaped the religious mentalities of the Christian era."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Greek city and its religions after the classical age  -- Onno van Nijf, Richard Alston and Christina Williamson; title: Processions in Hellenistic cities : contemporary discourses and ritual dynamics  -- Angelos Chaniotis; title: Destined to rule : the Near Eastern origins o Helenistic ruler cult  -- Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides; title: The "temple with indented niches" at Ai Khanoum : ethnic and civic identity in Hellenistic Bactria  -- Rachel Mairs; title: As God is my witness : civic oaths in ritual space as a means towards rational cooperation in the Hellenistic polis  -- Christina G. Williamson; title: Oracles and civic identity in Roman Asia Minor  -- Aude Busine; title: Officials as dedicators in post-classical poleis  -- Günther Schörne; title: Greek tradition and Roman innovation : adapting cults and local identities in Pausanias' Greece  -- Maria Pretzler; title: Many mansions : Jews in the Greek cities of Roman Syria and Palestine  -- Susan Sorek and David Noy; title: Rhetorical competition within the Christian community at Corinth : Paul and the Sophists  -- George H. van Kooten; title: "The present and future worlds are enemies to each other" : early Christian aloofness and participation in the pagan world  -- Despina Iosif; title: Transformation of a city : the Christianization of Jerusalem in the fourth century  -- Jan Willem Drijvers; title: Religion on the ground : Rome and Constantinople--a comparative topographical study  -- Michael Mulryan; title: Urban and religious changes at Gerasa ; title: Charlie March.