Religious diversity in late antiquity [... conference ... met in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in March 2005, under the title "The Religion of 'the Rest': Heresy, Apathy and Popular Piety in Late Antiquity"

This volume in the ongoing Late Antique Archaeology series draws on material and textual evidence to explore the diverse religious world of Late Antiquity. Subjects include Jews and Samaritans, orthodoxy and heresy, pilgrimage, stylites, magic, the sacred and the secular. Religious Diversity In Late Antiquity : An Introduction / David M. Gwynn And Susanne Bangert -- Religious Diversity In Late Antiquity : A Bibliographic Essay / David M. Gwynn -- Jews And Samaritans -- Third Century Jews And Judaism At Beth Shearim And Dura Europus / Jodi Magness -- Artistic Trends And Contact Between Jews And 'others' In Late Antique Sepphoris : Recent Research / Zeev Weiss -- Archaeological Aspects Of Samaritan Research In Israel / Shimon Dar -- Orthodoxy And Heresy -- The Limits Of The Heresiological Ethos In Late Antiquity / Michel-yves Perrin -- Archaeology And The 'arian Controversy' In The Fourth Century / David M. Gwynn -- Where Is The Archaeology And Iconography Of Germanic Arianism? / Bryan Ward-perkins -- Popular Piety -- The Archaeology Of Pilgrimage : Abu Mina And Beyond / Susanne Bangert -- The Archaeology Of The Stylite / Lukas Amadeus Schachner -- Magic And Religion -- Magic And Syncretic Religious Culture In The East / Arja Karivieri -- Magic In Late Antiquity : The Evidence Of Magical Gems / Carla Sfameni -- Sacred And Secular -- The Use Of Secularised Latin Pagan Culture By Christians / Claude Lepelley -- The Sacred And The Secular : The Presence Or Absence Of Christian Religious Thought In Secular Writing In The Late Antique West / Mark Humphries With David M. Gwynn -- Literary Genre Or Religious Apathy? : The Presence Or Absence Of Theology And Religious Thought In Secular Writing In The Late Antique East / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- John Chrysostom's Audiences And His Accusations Of Religious Laxity / Isabella Sandwell. Edited By David M. Gwynn And Susanne Bangert ; Conceived And Co-ordinated By Luke Lavan ; With The Assistance Of Carlos Machado And Michael Mulryan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English Text; Abstracts In French. This new volume in the well-established Late Antique Archaeology series draws together recent research by archaeologists and historians to shed new light on the religious world of Late Antiquity. A detailed bibliographic essay provides an overview of relevant literature, while individual articles explore the diversity of late antique religion. Rabbinic and non-rabbinic Judaism is traced in Beth Shearim, Dura Europus and Sepphoris, and the Samaritan community in Israel, while Christian concepts of orthodoxy and heresy are examined with a particular focus on the 'Arian' Controversy. Popular piety receives close attention, through the archaeology of pilgrimage and the stylite 'pillar saints', and so too does the complex relationship between religion and magic and between sacred and secular in Late Antiquity. Contributors are David M. Gwynn, Susanne Bangert, Jodi Magness, Zeev Weiss, Shimon Dar, Michel-Yves Perrin, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Lukas Amadeus Schachner, Arja Karivieri, Carla Sfameni, Claude Lepelley, Mark Humphries, Elizabeth Jeffreys, and Isabella Sandwell. This new volume in the well-established Late Antique Archaeology series draws together recent research by archaeologists and historians to shed new light on the religious world of Late Antiquity. A detailed bibliographic essay provides an overview of relevant literature, while individual articles explore the diversity of late antique religion. Rabbinic and non-rabbinic Judaism is traced in Beth Shearim, Dura Europus and Sepphoris, and the Samaritan community in Israel, while Christian concepts of orthodoxy and heresy are examined with a particular focus on the Àrian' Controversy. Popular piety receives close attention, through the archaeology of pilgrimage and the stylite p̀illar saints', and too does the complex relationship between religion and magic and between sacred and secular in Late Antiquity Contributors are David M. Gwynn, Susanne Bangert, Jodi Magness, Zeev Weiss, Shimon Dar, Michel-Yves Perrin, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Lukas Amadeus Schachner, Arja Karivieri, Carla Sfameni, Claude Lepelley, Mark Humphries, Elizabeth Jeffreys, and Isabella Sandwell. --Book Jacket