Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage from Augustus to Constantine
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 23 February 1995
- ISBN 9780198140832
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages348 pages
- Size 223x145x26 mm
- Weight 573 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 maps 0
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Short description:
This book examines the organization of religion - Christian, pagan, and Jewish - in the Roman Empire at the time of Constantine and Augustine. The author argues that because official pagan religion was inextricably tied to the structure of individual cities, Christianity alone was able to unite the inhabitants of the Empire as a whole.
MoreLong description:
This book examines the organization of religion in the Roman empire from Augustus to Constantine. Although there have been illuminating particular studies of the relationship between religious activity and socio-political authority in the empire, there has been no large-scale attempt to assess it as a whole. Taking as his focus the situation in Carthage, the greatest city of the western provinces, J.B. Rives argues that the traditional religion, predicated on the structure of a city-state, could not serve to integrate individuals into an empire. In upholding traditional religion, the government abandoned the sort of political control of religious behaviour characteristic of the Roman Republic, and allowed poeple to determine their own religious identities. The importance of Christianity was thus suited to the needs of the increasingly homogeneous Roman empire.
the author has successfully placed north Aftican Christianity within the ramework of the variegated religious life of the province during the second and third centuries. he has achieved this in a scholarly and well-researched study and...has made a valuable contribution towards understanding the political and religious life of Roman north Africa.
