Religious Violence in the Ancient World : From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity

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Main Author: Dijkstra, Jitse H. F. (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations , 2020
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520 |a Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- A Note on Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Situation in Current Research and Themes of the Volume -- Overview of Contributions to the Volume -- Part I Methodology -- Chapter 1 Sacred Prefigurations of Violence: Religious Communities in Situations of Conflict -- Introduction: A Causal Relationship between Religion and Violence? -- A Contemporary Case of the Link between Religious Communities and Violence: The 9/11 Attack as a Ghazwa of Muhammad -- An Ancient Case of the Link between Religious Communities and Violence: The Violent Zeal of Phinehas for the Observation of God's Covenant with Israel -- The Thomas Theorem -- Jewish and Muslim Definitions of the Middle East Conflict -- Conclusion: Methodological Rules for the Investigation of the Relationship between Religious Communities and Acts of Violence -- Chapter 2 Priestesses, Pogroms and Persecutions: Religious Violence in Antiquity in a Diachronic Perspective -- Introduction -- Socrates and Phryne -- The 'Pogrom' of Alexandria in ad 38 -- The Roman Persecutions -- Christian Cultural Violence: The Case of Gaza -- Conclusion -- Part II Religious Violence in the Graeco-Roman World -- Chapter 3 Ancient Greek Binding Spells and (Political) Violence -- Introduction: Cultures of Terror -- Current Approaches -- A Body in Parts -- A Political Discourse -- Subjectivation -- Conclusion: Bodies Politic -- Chapter 4 The Expulsion of Isis Worshippers and Astrologers from Rome in the Late Republic and Early Empire -- Introduction -- The Cults of Isis and Sarapis -- Astrology -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Religious Violence? Two Massacres on a Sabbath in 66 ce: Jerusalem and Caesarea -- Introduction -- Context, Method and Possible Stakes -- Two Massacres: Josephus' War. 
520 |a Narrative and Real Life - Generally and in Caesarea -- Conflict in Jerusalem - and Massacre -- Conclusions: Life vs. Narrative, Judaeans vs. Romans, Religious vs. Other Violence -- Chapter 6 Religion, Violence and the Diasporic Experience: The Jewish Diaspora in Flavian Rome and Puteoli -- Introduction: Violence and Religion before Later Antiquity -- Enlightened Polytheists and Monotheistic Zealots, or: Why Religion and Violence Must Be Disaggregated -- Different Manifestations of Violence -- Cultural Violence and Religion: IVDAEA CAPTA -- Victims of Violence -- The Promotion of Particularism and the Permanence of Structural Violence -- Gods as Foreigners -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Animal Sacrifice and the Roman Persecution of Christians (Second to Third Century) -- Introduction -- The Role of Animal Sacrifice in Trials of Christians Prior to Decius -- Animal Sacrifice in the Decree of Decius -- The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice -- Christian Responses to the Decree of Decius -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 The Great Persecution and Imperial Ideology: Patterns of Communication on Tetrarchic Coinage -- Explaining the Outbreak of the Great Persecution -- Tetrarchic Coinage: The General Picture -- Tetrarchic Coinage: Religious Representation -- Coins and the Great Persecution -- Appendix 1 Messages Propagated on the Coin Types of Severus, Gallienus, Diocletian and Galerius -- Appendix 2 Messages on the Coin Types of the Tetrarchs, 284-313 -- Chapter 9 The Violent Legacy of Constantine's Militant Piety -- Introduction -- Images of Christians and Emperors -- Lactantius' Portrayal of Constantine -- Constantine and the Gauls -- Conclusion -- Part III Religious Violence in Late Antiquity -- Chapter 10 Religious Violence in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches, Trends and Issues -- Introduction -- Religious Violence as a Category -- Rhetoric and Reality. 
520 |a Making Sense of Religious Violence -- Chapter 11 Coercion in Late Antiquity: A Brief Intellectual History -- Introduction -- A Late Ancient Concept of Coercion -- A Brief Intellectual History -- Augustine on Coercion by the State -- Conclusions -- Chapter 12 Crowd Behaviour and the Destruction of the Serapeum at Alexandria in 391/392 ce -- Introduction -- Crowd Behaviour and Social Psychological Models -- Previous Scholarship on the Serapeum Incident -- Crowd Behaviour and the Serapeum Incident -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Violence and Monks: From a Mystical Concept to an Intolerant Practice (Fourth to Fifth Century) -- Ancient Monasticism and Factual Violence -- Theoretical Issues -- Ancient Monasticism and Ascetic Violence -- Monastic Exegesis of Matthew 11:12 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 14 The Discipline of Domination: Asceticism, Violence and Monastic Curses in Theodoret's Historia Religiosa -- Introduction -- Asceticism and/as Dominance: Theodoret's Ascetic Discourse and the Violence of the Self -- The Monastic Curse: A Violent Asceticisation of the Other -- The Death Curse: The Zenith of Ascetic Dominance and Radical Anti-Asceticism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 15 Suffering Saints: Shaping Narratives of Violence after Chalcedon -- Introduction -- Victims of Violence: Early Anti-Chalcedonian Narratives of Imperial Persecution -- Witnesses for Christ: Expanding the Scope of Meaningful Suffering -- John of Ephesus: Violence in Anti-Chalcedonian Rhetoric after Justinian -- Conclusion -- Chapter 16 Fighting for Chalcedon: Vitalian's Rebellion against Anastasius -- Introduction -- The Religious Background to Vitalian's Revolt -- Late Antique Generals and Religious Politics -- The Sources for Vitalian's Revolt -- Vitalian's Revolt -- Reframing the Historical Record -- Conclusion. 
520 |a Chapter 17 The Emperor, the People and Urban Violence in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries -- Introduction -- Urban Violence, the Factions and the Church: Recent Research -- The Causes of the Weakening of the Emperor's Position -- The Consequences of the Weakening of the Emperor's Position -- Conclusion -- Index of Sources -- General Index. 
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