The religious history of the Roman Empire : pagans, Jews, and Christians

Abstract

Introduction I. CHANGES IN RELIGIOUS LIFE: ROMAN AND CIVIC CULTS 1. Roman Religion and the Religion of Empire: Some Reflections on Method 2. The Roman Imperial Cult and the Question of Power 3. Magic in Roman Law: The Reconstruction of a Crime 4. New Combinations and New Statuses: The Indigenous Gods in the Pantheons of the Cities of Roman Gaul 5. Hypsistos: A Way of Exalting the Gods in Graeco-Roman Polytheism 6. On the Uses and Disadvantages of Divination: Oracles and their Literary Representations in the Time of the Second Sophistic II. ELECTIVE CULTS 7. Homogeneity and Diversity in the Religions of Rome 8. Oriental Mysteries and Cults: A Problem in the History of Religions 9. Ritual and Hierarchy in the Mysteries of Mithras 10. Community and Community: Reflections on Some Ambiguities Based on the Thiasoi of Roman Egypt III. COEXISTENCE OF RELIGIONS, OLD AND NEW 11. Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and 'Pagan' Guilds at Hierapolis 12. Josephus and Variety in First-Century Judaism 13. The Forging of Christian Identity and the Letter To Diognetus 14. Purification and its Discontents: Mani's Rejection of Baptism 15. Pagans, Polytheists and the Pendulum IV. LATE ANTIQUITY 16. Early Christianity and the Discourse of Female Desire 17. Enjoying the Saints in Late Antiquity

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