Author: S. R. F. Price
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521312684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman Emperor was treated like a god.
Author: Revd Allen Brent
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004313125
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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Recent studies have re-assessed Emperor worship as a genuinely religious response to the metaphysics of social order. Brent argues that Augustus' revolution represented a genuinely religious reformation of Republican religion that had failed in its metaphysical objectives. Against this backcloth, Luke, John the Seer, Clement, Ignatius and the Apologists refashioned Christian theology as an alternative answer to that metaphysical failure. Callistus and Pseudo-Hippolytus gave different responses to Severan images of imperial power. The early, Monarchian theology of the Trinity was thus to become a reflection of imperial culture and its justification that was later to be articulated both in Neo-Platonism, and in Cyprian's view of episcopal Order. Contra-cultural theory is employed as a sociological model to examine the interaction between developing Pagan and Christian social order.
Author: Gwynaeth McIntyre
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004398376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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This article surveys the range of ancient literary sources and modern scholarly debates on how individuals became gods in the Roman world and the practices classified under the modern collective heading ‘imperial cult’.
Author: Duncan Fishwick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004071810
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 867
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Author: Weijing Lu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804758086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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This book is a comprehensive study of faithful maidenhood in late imperial China from the vantage points of state policy, local history, scholarly debate, and the faithful maiden’s own subjective point of view.
Author: S. Patterson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230620175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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What was imperial honor and how did it sustain the British Raj? If "No man may harm me with impunity" was an ancient theme of the European aristocracy, British imperialists of almost all classes in India possessed a similar vision of themselves as overlords belonging to an honorable race, so that ideals of honor condoned and sanctified their rituals, connecting them with status, power, and authority. Honor, most broadly, legitimated imperial rule, since imperialists ostensibly kept India safe from outside threats. Yet at the individual level, honor kept the "white herd" together, providing the protocols and etiquette for the imperialist, who had to conform to the strict notions of proper and improper behavior in a society that was always obsessed with maintaining its dominance over India and Indians.Examining imperial society through the prism of honor therefore opens up a new methodology for the study of British India.
Author: Steven J. Friesen
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195131533
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the first study to examine both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical text in depth. Friesen argues that a detailed analysis of imperial cults as they were practiced in the first century CE in the region where John was active allows us to understand John's criticism of his society's dominant values. He demonstrates the importance of imperial cults for society at the time when Revelation was written, and shows the ways in which John refuted imperial cosmology through his use of vision, myth, and eschatological expectation.
Author: Michael Jones (Archaeologist)
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300169124
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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"This publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)"--Page v.
Author: Duncan Fishwick
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004297545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: Gwynaeth McIntyre
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Important examination of Roman imperial power structure