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Handbook of early Christianity : social science approaches / edited by Anthony J. Blasi, Jean Duhaime and Paul-André Turcotte.

Contributor(s): Blasi, Anthony J | Turcotte, Paul-André, 1943- | Duhaime, Jean
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xxvii, 802 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0759100152 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Religion and sociology -- RomeDDC classification: 270.1 LOC classification: BR166 | .H36 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-751) and indexes.
Contents:
Social sciences studying formative Christian phenomena : a creative movement / David G. Horrell -- Major social scientific theories : origins, development, and contributions / Paul-André Turcotte -- General methodological perspective / Anthony J. Blasi -- Archaeological and architectural issues and the question of demographic and urban forms / Carolyn Osiek -- An illustration of historical inquiry : histories of Jesus and Matthew I.1-25 / Ritva H. Williams -- Literary source and redaction criticism / Steven L. Bridge -- Statistical textual analysis : a special technique / Robert A. Wortham -- Aspects of rhetorical analysis applied to New Testament texts / Ernst R. Wendland -- Structuralism and symbolic universes : Second Temple Judaism and the early Christian movement / Peter Staples -- Early Christianity as an unorganized ecumenical religious movement / Frederick Bird -- Jesus and Palestinian social protest : archaeological and literary perspectives / Peter Richardson and Douglas Edwards -- Civilizational encounters in the development of early Christianity / Donald A. Nielsen -- Early Christian culture as interaction / Anthony J. Blasi -- "Becoming Christian" : solidifying Christian identity and content / David G. Horrell -- Sociological insights into the development of Christian leadership roles and community formation / Howard Clark Kee -- Establishing social distance between Christian and both Jews and pagans / Jack T. Sanders -- Connections with elites in the world of the early Christians / Philip A. Harland -- Government and public law in Galilee, Judaea, Hellenistic cities, and the Roman Empire / John W. Marshall and Russell Martin -- Persecution / Harold Remus -- Vulnerable power : the Roman empire challenged by the early Christians / Warren Carter -- The limits of ethnic categories / Nicola Denzey -- The economy of first-century Palestine : state of the scholarly discussion / Philip A. Harland -- Modes and relations of production / Dimitris J. Kyrtatas -- What would you do for a living? / David A. Fiensy -- Conflicting bases of identity in early Christianity : the example of Paul / Nicholas H. Taylor -- Dread of the community : a psychoanalytical study of fratricidal conflict in the context of first-century Palestine / Richard K. Fenn -- Conversion in early Christianity / Jack T. Sanders.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-751) and indexes.

Social sciences studying formative Christian phenomena : a creative movement / David G. Horrell -- Major social scientific theories : origins, development, and contributions / Paul-André Turcotte -- General methodological perspective / Anthony J. Blasi -- Archaeological and architectural issues and the question of demographic and urban forms / Carolyn Osiek -- An illustration of historical inquiry : histories of Jesus and Matthew I.1-25 / Ritva H. Williams -- Literary source and redaction criticism / Steven L. Bridge -- Statistical textual analysis : a special technique / Robert A. Wortham -- Aspects of rhetorical analysis applied to New Testament texts / Ernst R. Wendland -- Structuralism and symbolic universes : Second Temple Judaism and the early Christian movement / Peter Staples -- Early Christianity as an unorganized ecumenical religious movement / Frederick Bird -- Jesus and Palestinian social protest : archaeological and literary perspectives / Peter Richardson and Douglas Edwards -- Civilizational encounters in the development of early Christianity / Donald A. Nielsen -- Early Christian culture as interaction / Anthony J. Blasi -- "Becoming Christian" : solidifying Christian identity and content / David G. Horrell -- Sociological insights into the development of Christian leadership roles and community formation / Howard Clark Kee -- Establishing social distance between Christian and both Jews and pagans / Jack T. Sanders -- Connections with elites in the world of the early Christians / Philip A. Harland -- Government and public law in Galilee, Judaea, Hellenistic cities, and the Roman Empire / John W. Marshall and Russell Martin -- Persecution / Harold Remus -- Vulnerable power : the Roman empire challenged by the early Christians / Warren Carter -- The limits of ethnic categories / Nicola Denzey -- The economy of first-century Palestine : state of the scholarly discussion / Philip A. Harland -- Modes and relations of production / Dimitris J. Kyrtatas -- What would you do for a living? / David A. Fiensy -- Conflicting bases of identity in early Christianity : the example of Paul / Nicholas H. Taylor -- Dread of the community : a psychoanalytical study of fratricidal conflict in the context of first-century Palestine / Richard K. Fenn -- Conversion in early Christianity / Jack T. Sanders.

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