Hellenic religion and Christianization, c. 370-529

by Trombley, Frank R.

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Title Statements

Full title :Hellenic religion and Christianization, c. 370-529 / by Frank R. Trombley. Vol. 2.

Summary

This work discusses the decline of Greek religion and the christianization of town and countryside in the eastern Roman Empire between the death of Julian the Apostate and the laws of Justinian the Great against paganism, c. 370-529. It examines such questions as the effect of the laws against sacrifice and sorcery, temple conversions, the degradation of pagan gods into daimones, the christianization of rite, and the social, political and economic background of conversion to Christianity. Several local contexts are examined in great detail: Gaza, Athens, Alexandria, Aphrodisias, central Asia Minor, northern Syria, the Nile basin, and the province of Arabia. It lays particular emphasis on the criticism of epigraphy, legal evidence, and hagiographic texts, and traces the demographic growth of Christianity and the chronology of this process in select local contexts. It also seeks to understand the behavioral patterns of conversion.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1995.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):E.J. Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1995.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 430 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9004276785, 9789004276789, 9789004096912, 9004096914
oclc:on1027569775
LC Classification:BR128.G8
Dewey Decimal:261.2/2/09015

Subjects

Christianisme -- Relations Christianity Christianity and other religions Christianity and other religions -- Gre… Christianity and other religions -- Rom… Church history -- Primitive and early c… Church history -- Primitive and early c… Église -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (Église… Greeks -- Religion Interfaith relations Romans -- Religion