Reconceptualising Conversion
Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
1st Edition
Published on 9. August 2012
XV, 310 pages
978-3-11-091560-0 (ISBN)
Description
Combining 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.
Reviews / Votes
"Crook has given us a rewarding study in ancient patronal relationships that is competent, interesting, and [...] undoubtedly correct."Carolyn Osiek in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.02.33More details
Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2003
University of Toronto
Edition
Reprint 2012
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
File size
9,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-091560-0 (9783110915600)
Schweitzer Classification
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Zeba A. Crook
Reconceptualising Conversion
Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
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08/2004
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De Gruyter
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Zeba A. Crook
Reconceptualising Conversion
Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
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1st Edition
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Person
Expanded Ph.D. dissertation (2003) under the supervision of Prof. John S. Kloppenborg, University of Toronto, Canada. Zeba A. Crook is now an assistant professor in the department of Classics and Religion at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Content
Chapter I: The Influence of Psychology on Contemporary Society and Scholarship ? Chapter II: General Reciprocity Among Humans and their Gods ? Chapter III: The Rhetoric of Patronage and Benefaction ? Chapter IV: The Rhetoric of Patronage and Benefaction in Paul's Conversion Passages ? Chapter V: Patronage and Benefaction, Loyalty, and Conversion
