John North & Simon Price: Introduction
I. Changes in Religious Life: Roman and Civic Cults
1: Jörg Rüpke: Roman Religion and the Religion of Empire: Some
Reflections on Method
2: Richard Gordon: The Roman Imperial Cult and the Question of
Power
3: J. B. Rives: Magic in Roman Law: The Reconstruction of a
Crime
4: William Van Andringa: New Combinations and New Statuses: The
Indigenous Gods in the Pantheons of the Cities of Roman Gaul
5: Nicole Belayche: Hypsistos: A Way of Exalting the Gods in
Graeco-Roman Polytheism
6: Andreas Bendlin: On the Uses and Disadvantages of Divination:
Oracles and their Literary Representations in the Time of the
Second Sophistic
II. Elective Cults
7: Simon Price: Homogeneity and Diversity in the Religions of
Rome
8: Giulia Sfameni Gasparro: Oriental Mysteries and Cults: A Problem
in the History of Religions
9: Richard Gordon: Ritual and Hierarchy in the Mysteries of
Mithras
10: John Scheid: Community and Community: Reflections on Some
Ambiguities Based on the Thiasoi of Roman Egypt
III. Coexistence of Religions, Old and New
11: Philip Harland: Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A
Jewish Family and 'Pagan' Guilds at Hierapolis
12: Martin Goodman: Josephus and Variety in First-Century
Judaism
13: Judith Lieu: The Forging of Christian Identity and the Letter
To Diognetus
14: Guy G. Stroumsa: Purification and its Discontents: Mani's
Rejection of Baptism
15: J. A. North: Pagans, Polytheists and the Pendulum
IV. Late Antiquity
16: Averil Cameron: Early Christianity and the Discourse of Female
Desire
17: Peter Brown: Enjoying the Saints in Late Antiquity
J. A. North is Emeritus Professor of History at University College London.
S. R. F. Price is Emeritus Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
It is an important book, not just because of the status and quality
of the contributors which are outstanding, but perhaps even more so
because this is a successful attempt at bringing together scholars
working in related, yet all too often regarded or treated as
different fields.
*J. Verheyden, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses*
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