Religious Life in the Near East

Plurality, Variation, and Innovation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23562671
AutoresNathanael Andrade (0000-0002-3365-812X, History, Binghamton University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Páginas401-420
Fecha de publicación2025-04-22
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaOxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman near East (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.013.76
OpenAlexW4409664344
ISBN9780190858155
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas31

Religious pluralism was a defining feature of all the societies in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. The Near East was also home to Jews, and its peoples over time played a pivotal roles in the formation of Zoroastrian, Christian, Manichaean, and eventually Muslim communities. This chapter aims to identify various social factors that shaped and structured the Near East’s pluralistic religious landscapes and the religious lives of those inhabiting them. Areas of analysis include households, kinship groups, Iron Age continuities, cities, villages, regional formations and trends, imperial and state structures, global phenomena, and the Roman army. Finally, the chapter probes the complicated impact that members of religious movements with transregional or universal aspirations, especially Christians, had on these landscapes during late antiquity.

Geography · Religious life · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Religious studies

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