Preface

Abbreviations




Part1: 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




Part2: 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




Part3: 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




Part4: 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




Part5: 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