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The spread of Christianity in the first four centuries : essays in explanation / edited by W.V. Harris.

Contributor(s): Harris, William V. (William Vernon)
Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia studies in the classical tradition: v. 27.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005Description: xiv, 176 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004147179 (alk. paper); 9789004147171 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600DDC classification: 270.1 LOC classification: BR166 | .S695 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Models of Christian expansion / H.A. Drake -- Christian expansion and Christian ideology / J.B. Rives -- Thinking with women : the uses of the appeal to "woman" in pre-Nicene Christian propaganda literature / Elizabeth A. Clark -- The significance of leadership and organisation in the spread of Christianity / Dimitris J. Kyrtatas -- Barbarians and the empire-wide spread of Christianity / Stamenka E. Antonova -- Outlawing "magic" or outlawing "religion" : Libanius and the Theodosian code as evidence for legislation against "pagan" practices / Isabella Sandwell -- Pagans, polytheists and the pendulum / J.A. North -- Roman historians and the rise of Christianity : the school of Edward Gibbon / Seth Schwartz.

Revised versions of papers given at a symposium of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia in 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Models of Christian expansion / H.A. Drake -- Christian expansion and Christian ideology / J.B. Rives -- Thinking with women : the uses of the appeal to "woman" in pre-Nicene Christian propaganda literature / Elizabeth A. Clark -- The significance of leadership and organisation in the spread of Christianity / Dimitris J. Kyrtatas -- Barbarians and the empire-wide spread of Christianity / Stamenka E. Antonova -- Outlawing "magic" or outlawing "religion" : Libanius and the Theodosian code as evidence for legislation against "pagan" practices / Isabella Sandwell -- Pagans, polytheists and the pendulum / J.A. North -- Roman historians and the rise of Christianity : the school of Edward Gibbon / Seth Schwartz.

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