Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, Issue 130Combining classical, epigraphical, and biblical sources with social-scientific methodology, this monograph questions the way in which modern scholarship has tended to discuss ancient conversion. The author challenges long-held assumptions of psychological continuity between ancient and modern people, and offers in place of these assumptions a model founded on the categories the ancients used themselves. Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean religions and philosophies, including Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity, framed their religion in the language of patronage / benefaction and loyalty, and thus an understanding of ancient conversion must start there. |
Contents
The Influence of Psychology | 13 |
General Reciprocity | 53 |
The Rhetoric of Patronage and Benefaction | 91 |
The Rhetoric of Patronage and Benefaction | 151 |
Patronage and Benefaction | 199 |
Conclusion | 251 |
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