Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity

Description

This volume in the ongoing Late Antique Archaeology series draws on material and textual evidence to explore the diverse religious world of Late Antiquity. Subjects include Jews and Samaritans, orthodoxy and heresy, pilgrimage, stylites, magic, the sacred and the secular. Religious diversity in late antiquity : an introduction / David M. Gwynn and Susanne Bangert -- Religious diversity in late antiquity : a bibliographic essay / David M. Gwynn -- Jews and Samaritans -- Third century Jews and Judaism at Beth Shearim and Dura Europus / Jodi Magness -- Artistic trends and contact between Jews and 'others' in late antique Sepphoris : recent research / Zeev Weiss -- Archaeological aspects of Samaritan research in Israel / Shimon Dar -- Orthodoxy and heresy -- The limits of the heresiological ethos in late antiquity / Michel-Yves Perrin -- Archaeology and the 'Arian controversy' in the fourth century / David M. Gwynn -- Where is the archaeology and iconography of Germanic Arianism? / Bryan Ward-Perkins -- Popular piety -- The archaeology of pilgrimage : Abu Mina and beyond / Susanne Bangert -- The archaeology of the stylite / Lukas Amadeus Schachner -- Magic and religion -- Magic and syncretic religious culture in the East / Arja Karivieri -- Magic in late antiquity : the evidence of magical gems / Carla Sfameni -- Sacred and secular -- The use of secularised Latin pagan culture by Christians / Claude Lepelley -- The sacred and the secular : the presence or absence of Christian religious thought in secular writing in the late antique West / Mark Humphries with David M. Gwynn -- Literary genre or religious apathy? : the presence or absence of theology and religious thought in secular writing in the late antique East / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- John Chrysostom's audiences and his accusations of religious laxity / Isabella Sandwell.