Religious Context of Early Christianity
A Guide To Graeco-Roman Religions
Religious Context of Early Christianity
A Guide To Graeco-Roman Religions
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567089434
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 01/04/2003
This is a comprehensive guide to the world of religion in the Graeco-Roman world of early Christianity. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, the volume paints a carefully nuanced portrait of the Christians' religious context. Besides describing ordinary domestic and civil religion and popular belief (including astrology, divination and "magic"), there is extended discussion of mystic cults, ruler and emperor cults, the religious dimensions of philosophy, and Gnosticism.
Introduction - Daily life and Liminal Experiences: Civic and Domestic Religion - The Fascination of the Mysterious: The Mystery Cults - Popular Belief: A Panorama - Astrology, Soothsaying, Miracles, Magic - Divinised Human Beings: The Cult of Rulers and Emperors - V. In search of Happiness: Philosophy and Religion - Return to the Divine Origin: The Gnostic Transformation; 1. Preface; Introduction; 1. The broader task; 2. An earlier programme; 3. Elements from social theory; 4. Biblical paradigms; I. Daily life and Liminal Experiences: Civic and Domestic Religion; 1. The Sacrificial cult; 2. The associations; 3. Religio domestica; 4. The cult of the dead; II. The Fascination of the Mysterious: The Mystery Cults; 5. Approaching the phenomenon; 6. The mysteries of Eleusis; 7. The cult and mysteries of Dionysus; 8. The cult of Attis; 9. The cult of Isis; 10. The mysteries of Mithras; 11. Evaluation; III Popular Belief: A Panorama - Astrology, Soothsaying, Miracles, Magic; 12. Miracles of Healing; 13. Foretelling the future and interpreting signs; 14. Magic; 15. Astrology; IV Divinised Human Beings: The Cult of Rulers and Emperors; 16. The Hellenistic cult of rulers; 17. The Roman imperial cult
"This is an extraordinary bibliographic and scholarly resource. Readers looking for a conspectus on the religious context of early Christianity need search no further than this book."
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