Reconceiving Religious Conflict

Wendy Mayer is Professor and Associate Dean of Research at Australian Lutheran College, University of Divinity, and Research Fellow in Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa. Chris L. de Wet is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the University of South Africa, and Honorary Research Fellow at Australian Lutheran College, University of Divinity.

Preface



Abbreviations



Part 1: Foundations



1. Re-Theorising Religious Conflict: Early Christianity to Late Antiquity and Beyond



Wendy Mayer



2. Religious Violence and Its Roots: A View from Antiquity



Jan Bremmer



Part 2: Rhetorical and Literary Trajectories



3. Blindness in Early Christianity: Tracking the Fundamentals of Religious Conflict



Pieter J. J. Botha



4. Religious Conflict, Radicalism, and Sexual Exceptionalism in the Rhetoric of John Chrysostom



Chris L. de Wet



5. Give it Up for God: Wealth, Suffering, and the Rhetoric of Religious Persecution in



John of Ephesus’s Church History



Christine Shepardson



6. Epiphanies and Religious Conflict: The Contests over the Hagiasma of Chonai



Alan H. Cadwallader



Part 3: Christianization



7. Contested Domains in the Conflicts between the Early Christian Mission and Diaspora Judaism According to the Book of Acts



Christoph Stenschke



8. Christianisation and Late Antique Patronage: Conflicts and Everyday Nuisances



Maijastina Kahlos



Part 4: Threats of Violence



9. "A Wise Madness": A Virtue-Based Model for Crowd Behaviour in Late Antiquity



Peter Van Nuffelen



10. Religious Violence in Late Antique Egypt Reconsidered: The Cases of Alexandria, Panopolis and Philae



Jitse H. F. Dijkstra



Part 5: Ancient and Modern Intersections



11. Collaboration and Identity in the Aftermath of Persecution: Religious Conflict and Its Legacy



Elizabeth DePalma Digeser



12. The Usefulness of Violent Ends: Apocalyptic Imaginaries in the Reconstruction of Society



Gerhard van den Heever