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Le problème de la christianisation du monde antique

Author : Hervé Inglebert
Publisher : Editions A&J Picard
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Le problème de la christianisation du monde antique written by Hervé Inglebert and published by Editions A&J Picard. This book was released on 2010 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La christianisation du monde antique est un thème central d'un point de vue historique (c'est un des rares événements dont les conséquences ont été essentielles pour l'histoire mondiale), d'un point de vue historiographique (c'est un des grands sujets d'étude de la fin de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine avec la disparition de l'Empire d'Occident et la fin du système civique classique), mais aussi d'un point de vue méthodologique. En effet, on croit couramment que la christianisation du monde antique fut une réalité qu'il suffirait de décrire, alors qu'il s'agit en fait de la penser, car elle est d'abord une représentation des historiens héritée de modèles antiques (Eusèbe de Césarée, Augustin d'Hippone) ou modernes (Voltaire, Marx, Freud). Pour pouvoir traiter « la christianisation du monde antique » comme sujet historique, il faut donc d'abord réfléchir sur une question d'historiens : « le problème de la christianisation du monde antique ». Pour cela, il faut faire un peu d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, analyser l'apparition et le sens du terme de christianisation, et faire le bilan de l'historiographie de la question. Ensuite, on peut tenter de penser « la christianisation du monde antique » de quatre manières : par l'analyse philologique des termes désignant la conversion en grec, latin et syriaque ; par l'étude des sources littéraires chrétiennes à propos des chrétiens, afin de mettre en évidence les représentations antiques du problème de la définition du chrétien; par le recours aux sources non littéraires (épigraphie, papyrologie, archéologie funéraire, archéologie monumentale, iconographie) afin de contourner la question des représentations liées aux textes antiques ; par l'enquête sur les sources littéraires chrétiennes à propos de la conversion des païens, qui permet de déconstruire des textes qui créaient une réalité autant qu'ils la décrivaient. Ainsi, en questionnant les évidences qui structurent nos pensées sur le passé, on peut espérer les distancier afin de mieux comprendre comment le monde antique est devenu chrétien. Pages du début Liste des intervenants Introduction Les mots et les concepts Par quels mots le grec ancien pouvait-il désigner le passage d'une religion à une autre ? Le vocabulaire latin de la conversion au christianisme La conversion et le vocabulaire connexe chez Aphraate le sage perse Crevit hypocrisis. Limites d'adhésion au christianisme dans l'antiquité tardive : entre histoire et historiographie Ambivalence de la christianisation, frontières de l'Église, identité chrétienne L'église, les domini, les païens rustici : Un principe de différenciation au cœur des processus de romanisation et de christianisation Les sources et les méthodes Le nombre des chrétiens en Égypte selon les données papyrologiques La christianisation de l'Asie Mineure jusqu'à Constantin : le témoignage de l'épigraphie La prosopographie chrétienne de la gaule : bilan et perspectives La topographie chrétienne des cités de la Gaule : La résistance des cultes bétyliques d'Arabie face au monothéisme : de Paul à Barsauma et à Muhammad La christianisation des Burgondes De l'image païenne à l'image chrétienne Les critères de la conversion et de la christianisation dans les textes chrétiens Augustin face à la christianisation de l'Afrique romaine Les « demi-chrétiens » d'Antioche : Christianiser, rechristianiser : Jean d'Éphèse et les missions Les marqueurs juridiques de la conversion en Occident entre le ive et viie siècle Le récit géorgien de La conversion de l'Ibérie Devenir chrétien dans l'Iran sassanide Qui verus christianus vult esse : christianisme et « paganisme » Face aux païens de la Baltique Richesses, travail et les« pauvres parmi les saints » Conclusions.

Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond

Author : Arietta Papaconstantinou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131715973X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond written by Arietta Papaconstantinou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume were presented at a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar held at the University of Oxford in 2009-2010, which sought to investigate side by side the two important movements of conversion that frame late antiquity: to Christianity at its start, and to Islam at the other end. Challenging the opposition between the two stereotypes of Islamic conversion as an intrinsically violent process, and Christian conversion as a fundamentally spiritual one, the papers seek to isolate the behaviours and circumstances that made conversion both such a common and such a contested phenomenon. The spread of Buddhism in Asia in broadly the same period serves as an external comparator that was not caught in the net of the Abrahamic religions. The volume is organised around several themes, reflecting the concerns of the initial project with the articulation between norm and practice, the role of authorities and institutions, and the social and individual fluidity on the ground. Debates, discussions, and the expression of norms and principles about conversion conversion are not rare in societies experiencing religious change, and the first section of the book examines some of the main issues brought up by surviving sources. This is followed by three sections examining different aspects of how those principles were - or were not - put into practice: how conversion was handled by the state, how it was continuously redefined by individual ambivalence and cultural fluidity, and how it was enshrined through different forms of institutionalization. Finally, a topographical coda examines the effects of religious change on the iconic holy city of Jerusalem.

Quand le christianisme a changé le monde

Author : Maurice Sachot
Publisher : Odile Jacob
ISBN 13 : 9782738118783
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Quand le christianisme a changé le monde written by Maurice Sachot and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 août 410 : la ville de Rome est mise à sac par Alaric Ier, roi des Wisigoths. 11 septembre 2001 : les Twin Towers s’écroulent, frappées par deux avions détournés par des terroristes. Dans le premier cas, la civilisation de l’Antiquité achève de s’écrouler ; dans le second, c’est la suprématie de l’Occident qui vacille. Entre ces deux dates, Maurice Sachot explore ce qui fait le fond même de la « civilisation » occidentale. Pour lui, même la sécularisation et la laïcisation qui semblent caractériser l’emprise que l’Occident a acquise sur le monde se définissent par référence au christianisme. C’est donc l’histoire de cette christianisation du monde qu’il raconte ici, privilégiant l’époque où tout s’est constitué, au basculement de l’Antiquité. Comment le christianisme s’est-il constitué et comment, ainsi, a-t-il transformé le monde ? Quels sont, par-delà les pays, les communautés, les époques, les traits qui ont fait la civilisation dite occidentale ? Venue de l’histoire des religions, une étonnante synthèse pour éclairer les débats d’aujourd’hui. Après avoir enseigné les langues patris-tiques à la Faculté de théologie catholique de Strasbourg, Maurice Sachot enseigne la philosophie ancienne à l’université Marc-Bloch et les sciences de l’éducation à l’université Louis-Pasteur. Il a notamment publié L’Invention du Christ.

Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th – 7th cent.)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004299041
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th – 7th cent.) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City, historians, archaeologists and historians of religion provide studies of the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city. The eleven papers brought together here aim to describe the possible links between religious, but also political, economic and social mutations engendered by Christianity and the evolution of the antique city. Combining a multiplicity of sources and analytical approaches, this book seeks to measure the impact on the city of the progressive abandonment of traditional cults to the advantage of new Christian religious practices.

The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th -6th centuries)

Author : Matthieu Pignot
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900443190X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th -6th centuries) written by Matthieu Pignot and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa, Matthieu Pignot offers the first historical study of the progressive integration of converts into Christianity as catechumens in late antique African sources, from Augustine of Hippo to 6th-century letters.

Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity

Author : Rita Lizzi Testa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000591239
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity written by Rita Lizzi Testa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a number of case studies to show some of the ways in which, as soon as the Roman Senate gained new political authority under Constantine and his successors, its members crowded the political scene in the West. In these chapters, Rita Lizzi Testa makes much of her work – the fruit of decades of research –available in English for the first time. The focus is on the aristocratics' passion for aruspical science, the political use of exphrastic poems, and even their control of the hagiographic genre in the late sixth century. She demonstrates how Roman senators were chosen as legates to establish proactive relations with Christian emperors, their ministers and military commanders, and Eastern and Western provincial elites. Senators wove a web of relations in the Eastern and Western empires, sewing and stitching the empire's fabric with their diplomatic skills, wealth, and influence, while lively and highly litigious assembly activity still required of them a cultured rhetoric. Through employing astute political strategies, they maintained their privileges, including their own beliefs in ancient cults. Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity provides a crucial collection for students and scholars of Late Antique history and religion, and of politics in the Late Roman Empire.

Through the Eye of a Needle

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400844533
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Through the Eye of a Needle written by Peter Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping intellectual history of the role of wealth in the church in the last days of the Roman Empire Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity. Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven. Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.

Religions of the Constantinian Empire

Author : Mark Edwards
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191511501
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Religions of the Constantinian Empire written by Mark Edwards and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religions of the Constantinian Empire provides a synoptic review of Constantine's relation to all the cultic and theological traditions of the Empire during the period from his seizure of power in the west in 306 cᴇ to the end of his reign as autocrat of both east and west in 337 cᴇ. Divided into three parts, the first considers the efforts of Christians to construct their own philosophy, and their own patterns of the philosophic life, in opposition to Platonism. The second assembles evidence of survival, variation or decay in religious practices which were never compulsory under Roman law. The 'religious plurality' of the second section includes those cults which are represented as demonic burlesques of the sacraments by Firmicus Maternus. The third reviews the changes, both within the church and in the public sphere, which were undeniably prompted by the accession of a Christian monarch. In this section on 'Christian polyphony', Mark Edwards expertly moves on from this deliberate petrifaction of Judaism to the profound shift in relations between the church and the civic cult that followed the Emperor's choice of a new divine protector. The material in the first section will be most familiar to the historian of philosophy, that of the second to the historian of religion, and that of the third to the theologian. All three sections make reference to such factors as the persecution under Diocletian, the so-called 'edict of Milan', the subsequent legislation of Constantine, and the summoning of the council of Nicaea. Edwards does not maintain, however, that the religious and philosophical innovations of this period were mere by-products of political revolution; indeed, he often highlights that Christianity was more revolutionary in its expectations than any sovereign could afford to be in his acts.This authoritative study provides a comprehensive reference work for those studying the ecclesiastical and theological developments and controversies of the fourth century.

The First Urban Churches 4

Author : James R. Harrison
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884143376
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The First Urban Churches 4 written by James R. Harrison and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigate the challenges and opportunities experienced by the early church This fourth installment of The First Urban Churches, edited by James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn, focuses on the urban context of Christian churches in first-century Roman Philippi. The international team of New Testament and classical scholars contributing to the volume present essays that use inscriptions, papyri, archaeological remains, coins, and iconography to examine the rivalries, imperial context, and ecclesial setting of the Philippian church. Features: Analysis of the material and epigraphic evidence relating to first- and second-century CE Roman Philippi Examination of important passages from Philippians within their ancient urban context Investigation of the social composition and membership of the Philippian church from the archaeological and documentary evidence

Religion in Roman Phrygia

Author : Robert Parker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520395484
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Religion in Roman Phrygia written by Robert Parker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Phrygia in the second and third centuries CE offers more vivid evidence for what has been termed 'lived ancient religion' than any other region of the ancient world. The evidence from Phrygia is neither literary nor, in the main, issued by cities or their powerful inhabitants. It comes from farmers and herders: they have left behind numerous stone memorials of themselves and dedications to their gods, praying for the welfare of their families, their crops, and their cattle. A rare window is opened into the world of what Sir Ronald Syme called 'the voiceless earth-coloured rustics' who are 'conveniently forgotten'. The period in which Phrygian paganism flourished so visibly to our eyes was also the period in which Christianity, introduced by the apostle Paul, took root, as early and as successfully as in any part of the Roman world. In Religion in Roman Phrygia: From Polytheism to Christianity, Robert Parker presents this rich body of evidence and uses it to explore one of history's great stories and enigmas: how and why the new religion overtook its predecessor, the Christian God now meeting the needs of Phrygians hitherto satisfied by Zeus and the other gods"--

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology

Author : David K. Pettegrew
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199369046
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology written by David K. Pettegrew and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2019 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research."--

Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity

Author : Richard Flower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192542664
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity written by Richard Flower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of religious identity in late antiquity is highly contentious. How did individuals and groups come to ascribe identities based on what would now be known as 'religion', categorizing themselves and others with regard to Judaism, Manichaeism, traditional Greek and Roman practices, and numerous competing conceptions of Christianity? How and why did examples of self-identification become established, activated, or transformed in response to circumstances? To what extent do labels (whether ancient and modern) for religious categories reflect a sense of a unified and enduring social or group identity for those included within them? How does religious identity relate to other forms of ancient identity politics (for example, ethnic discourse concerning 'barbarians')? Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity responds to the recent upsurge of interest in this issue by developing interdisciplinary research between classics, ancient and medieval history, philosophy, religion, patristics, and Byzantine studies, expanding the range of evidence standardly used to explore these questions. In exploring the malleability and potential overlapping of religious identities in late antiquity, as well as their variable expressions in response to different public and private contexts, it challenges some prominent scholarly paradigms. In particular, rhetoric and religious identity are here brought together and simultaneously interrogated to provide mutual illumination: in what way does a better understanding of rhetoric (its rules, forms, practices) enrich our understanding of the expression of late-antique religious identity? How does an understanding of how religious identity was ascribed, constructed, and contested provide us with a new perspective on rhetoric at work in late antiquity?

Augustine's Leaders

Author : Peter Iver Kaufman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625642024
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Augustine's Leaders written by Peter Iver Kaufman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Augustine's Leaders, Peter Iver Kaufman works from the premise that appropriations of Augustine endorsing contemporary liberal efforts to mix piety and politics are mistaken--that Augustine was skeptical about the prospects for involving Christianity in meaningful political change. His skepticism raises several questions for historians. What roles did one of the most influential Christian theologians set for religious and political leaders? What expectations did he have for emperors, statesmen, bishops, and pastors? What obstacles did he presume they would face? And what pastoral, polemical, and political challenges shaped Augustine's expectations--and frustrations? Augustine's Leaders answers those questions and underscores the leadership its subject provided as he continued to commend humility and compassion in religious and political cultures that seemed to him to reward, above all, celebrity and self-interest.

The Early Christians

Author : Hartmut Leppin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009050001
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Early Christians written by Hartmut Leppin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Christians are closely connected to today's world through a living memory and a common textual heritage - the Bible - even for non-Christians. However, as this engrossing new account shows, much about the early Christians is foreign to us and far removed from what passes for Christianity today.

Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe

Author : Nathan J. Ristuccia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192539655
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe by : Nathan J. Ristuccia

Download or read book Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe written by Nathan J. Ristuccia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity-the phenomena traditionally termed "Christianization". It refocuses scholarly paradigms for Christianization around the development of mandatory rituals. One prominent ritual, Rogationtide supplies an ideal case study demonstrating a new paradigm of "Christianization without religion." Christianization in the Middle Ages was not a slow process through which a Christian system of religious beliefs and practices replaced an earlier pagan system. In the Middle Ages, religion did not exist in the sense of a fixed system of belief bounded off from other spheres of life. Rather, Christianization was primarily ritual performance. Being a Christian meant joining a local church community. After the fall of Rome, mandatory rituals such as Rogationtide arose to separate a Christian commonwealth from the pagans, heretics, and Jews outside it. A Latin West between the polis and the parish had its own institution-the Rogation procession-for organizing local communities. For medieval people, sectarian borders were often flexible and rituals served to demarcate these borders. Rogationtide is an ideal case study of this demarcation, because it was an emotionally powerful feast, which combined pageantry with doctrinal instruction, community formation, social ranking, devotional exercises, and bodily mortification. As a result, rival groups quarrelled over the holiday's meaning and procedure, sometimes violently, in order to reshape the local order and ban people and practices as non-Christian.

The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity

Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191059137
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity written by Guy G. Stroumsa and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most important characteristic of the Abrahamic movement, often remains outside the mainstream, hidden, as it were, since it generates heresy. The figures of the Gnostic, the Holy man, and the mystic are all sequels of the Israelite prophet. They reflect a mode of religiosity that is characterized by high intensity. It is centripetal and activist by nature and emphasizes sectarianism and polemics, esoteric knowledge, or gnosis and charisma. The other mode of religiosity, obviously much more common than the first one, is centrifugal and irenic. It favours an ecumenical attitude, contents itself with a widely shared faith, or pistis, and reflects, in Weberian parlance, the routinisation of the new religious movement. This is the mode of priests and bishops, rather than that of martyrs and holy men. These two main modes of religion, high versus low intensity, exist simultaneously, and cross the boundaries of religious communities. They offer a tool permitting us to follow the transformations of religion in late antiquity in general, and in ancient Christianity in particular, without becoming prisoners of the traditional categories of Patristic literature. Through the dialectical relationship between these two modes of religiosity, one can follow the complex transformations of ancient Christianity in its broad religious context.

The Imam of the Christians

Author : Philip Wood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219958
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Imam of the Christians written by Philip Wood and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers in the Abbasid caliphate The Imam of the Christians examines how Christian leaders adopted and adapted the political practices and ideas of their Muslim rulers between 750 and 850 in the Abbasid caliphate in the Jazira (modern eastern Turkey and northern Syria). Focusing on the writings of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, the patriarch of the Jacobite church, Philip Wood describes how this encounter produced an Islamicate Christianity that differed from the Christianities of Byzantium and western Europe in far more than just theology. In doing so, Wood opens a new window on the world of early Islam and Muslims’ interactions with other religious communities. Wood shows how Dionysius and other Christian clerics, by forging close ties with Muslim elites, were able to command greater power over their coreligionists, such as the right to issue canons regulating the lives of lay people, gather tithes, and use state troops to arrest opponents. In his writings, Dionysius advertises his ease in the courts of ʿAbd Allah ibn Tahir in Raqqa and the caliph al-Ma’mun in Baghdad, presenting himself as an effective advocate for the interests of his fellow Christians because of his knowledge of Arabic and his ability to redeploy Islamic ideas to his own advantage. Strikingly, Dionysius even claims that, like al-Ma’mun, he is an imam since he leads his people in prayer and rules them by popular consent. A wide-ranging examination of Middle Eastern Christian life during a critical period in the development of Islam, The Imam of the Christians is also a case study of the surprising workings of cultural and religious adaptation.