Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire

Violence in Judaea at the Time of Nero

Bibliographic Data

ID19944729
AuthorsVasily Rudich (Yale University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages350
Publication date2015-03-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueReligious Dissent in the Roman Empire (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315750798
OpenAlexW4249635350
Open LibraryOL29274733M
ISBN9781315750798
LanguageEN
Citations received2

Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire is the third installment in Vasily Rudich's trilogy on the psychology of discontent in the Roman Empire at the time of Nero. Unlike his earlier books, it deals not with political dissidence, but with religious dissent, especially in its violent form. Against the broad background of Second Temple Judaism and Judaea's history under Rome's rule, Rudich discusses various manifestations of religious dissent as distinct from the mainstream beliefs and directed against both the foreign occupier and the priestly establishment. This book offers the methodological framework for the analysis of the religious dissent mindset, which it considers a recurrent historical phenomenon that may play a major role in different periods and cultures. In this respect, its findings are also relevant to the rise of religious violence in the world today and provide further insights into its persistent motives and paradigms. Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire is an important study for people interested in Roman and Jewish history, religious psychology and religious extremism, cultural interaction and the roots of violence

Ancient history · Art · Dissent · Empire · Political science · Politics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Comparative Religion · Dissenter · Essays · Historia · Judar · Kristna · Reference · Religio sa minoriteter · Religion · Religion and politics · Religion and state · Religion et État · Religionsfrihet · Rome · Sociala aspekter

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