Reconceptualising Conversion
Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
Format:Hardback
Publisher:De Gruyter
Published:25th Aug '04
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Combining classical, epigraphical, and biblical sources with social-scientific methodology, this monograph questions the way in which modern scholarship has tended to discuss ancient conversion. The author challenges long-held assumptions of psychological continuity between ancient and modern people, and offers in place of these assumptions a model founded on the categories the ancients used themselves. Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean religions and philosophies, including Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity, framed their religion in the language of patronage / benefaction and loyalty, and thus an understanding of ancient conversion must start there.
"Crook has given us a rewarding study in ancient patronal relationships that is competent, interesting, and [...] undoubtedly correct."Carolyn Osiek in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.02.33
ISBN: 9783110182651
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 575g
325 pages
Reprint 2012