Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity

David M. Gwynn, Ph.D. Oxford (2003), is Lecturer in Ancient and Late Antique History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent publications include The Eusebians: The Polemic of Athanasius of Alexandria and the Construction of the ‘Arian Controversy’ (OUP 2007) and the edited volume A.H.M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire (Brill 2008).Susanne Bangert, Ph.D. Copenhagen (2005), is Museum Inspector, Naestved Museum, Denmark. Her doctoral thesis will shortly be published as The Ashmolean Collection of Menas Ampullae within Their Social Context (Archaeopress, Oxford).

"an excellent representative of contemporary approaches to the important questions of Late Antique religious change, among religious identities as well as in the nature and scope of the religious sphere. As the editors point out in the introduction, material and textual evidence present different opportunities and limitations. The religious history of this period will surely benefit from collaborative efforts like this one." – Alice Christ, School of Art and Visual Studies, University of Kentucky, in: American Journal of Archaeology 117/2 (April 2013) [Full review]

• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsBibliographic EssayReligious Diversity in Late Antiquity: An Introduction David M. Gwynn and Susanne BangertJews and SamaritansThird Century Jews and Judaism at Beth Shearim and Dura Europus Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity: A bibliographic Essay David M. GwynnJodi MagnessArtistic Trends and Contact between Jews and 'Others' in Late Antique Sepphoris: Recent Research Zeev WeissArchaeological Aspecxts of Samaritan Research in Israel Shimon DarOrthodoxy and HeresyThe Limits of the Heresiological Ethos in Late Antiquity Michel-Yves PerrinArchaeology and the 'Arian Controvery' in the Fourth Century David M. GwynnWhere is the Archaeology and Iconography of Germanic Arianism? Bryan Ward-PerkinsPopular PietyThe Archaeology of Pilgrimage: Abu Mina and Beyond Susanne BangertThe Archaeology of the Stylite Likas Amadeus SchachnerMagic and ReligionMagic and Suncretic Religious Culture in the East Arja KarivieriMagic in Late Antiquity: The Evidence of Magical Gems Carla SfameniSacred and SecularThe Use of Secularised Latin Pagan Culture by Christians Claude LepelleyThe Sacred and the Secular: The Presence or Absence of Christain Religious Thought in Secular Writing in the Late Antique West Mark Humphries with David M. GwynnLiterary Genre or Religious Apathy? The Presence or Absence of Theology and Religious Thought in Secular Writing in the Late antique East Elizabeth JeffreysJohn Chrysostom's Audiences and His Accusations of Religious Laxity Isabella SandwellAbstracts in FrenchIndexErratumSeries information