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How did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This work places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civil life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles.
"In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the fairy queen, and the Green Man all came to be, and how the…