Everyday Religion and Sacred Work in Roman Antiquity and Medieval Societies

Tony Keddie is Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Fellow of the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His publications include Class and Power in Roman Palestine (2019), The Struggle over Class (2021), and Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East (2024).Martha G. Newman is Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History, emerita, at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her publications include Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks (2020) and The Boundaries of Charity (1996).

• Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: Everyday Religion and Sacred Work MARTHA G. NEWMAN AND TONY KEDDIE1 “Anyone Unwilling to Work Should not Eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10b): Cautionary Tales for Research on Capitalist Labor and Religion STEVEN J. FRIESEN2 The Sacred Work of Ephesian Silversmiths and the Discourse on Idolatrous Professions in Acts of the Apostles TONY KEDDIE3 Visual Representations Tying Religion and Worship to Work: Pompeii and Ostia Antica (First to Third Centuries ce) JOHN R. CLARKE4 Work, Wealth, and Worship in Roman Africa: The Cuttinus (Boglio) Stele MATTHEW M. MCCARTY5 Wealth, Poverty, Worker Bees, and Sluggards in John Chrysostom’s Commentaries on the SagesJACLYN MAXWELL6 The Dangers of Monastic Domestic Work: Intimate Economies in a Monastic Kitchen DARLENE L. BROOKS HEDSTROM7 “Is It Religion to Dig the Ground?” Monastic Work and Religion in Twelfth-Century Europe MARTHA G. NEWMAN8 Rabbinic Wages and the Provision of Justice in the Medieval Islamic World PHILLIP I. LIEBERMAN9 Worship as Work: Proxy Pilgrimage Contracts in Islamic Legal Thought MARION HOLMES KATZ10 Women’s Work, Interfaith Contact, and Labor Politics in the Late Medieval Mediterranean SARAH IFFT DECKERAfterword: Revisioning the Dreams of Everyday Work and Religion SARAH E. BONDIndex