Reconceiving religious conflict : new views from the formative centuries of christianity / edited by Wendy Mayer and Chris L. De Wet.

"Reconceiving Religious Conflict deconstructs instances of religious conflict within the formative centuries of Christianity, the first six centuries CE. It explores the theoretical foundations of religious conflict; the dynamics of religious conflict within the context of persecution and martyrdom; the social and moral intersections that undergird the phenomenon of religious conflict; and the relationship between religious conflict and religious identity. It is unique in that it does not solely focus on religious violence as it is physically manifested, but on religious conflict (and tolerance), looking too at dynamics of religious discourse and practice that often precede and accompany overt religious violence."-- Publisher's website.

part Part I Foundations -- chapter 1 Re-theorizing religious conflict: early Christianity to late antiquity and beyond / WENDY MAYER -- chapter 2 Religious violence and its roots: a view from antiquity / JAN BREMMER -- part Part II Rhetorical and literary trajectories -- chapter 3 Blindness in early Christianity: tracking the fundamentals of religious conflict / PIETER J. J. BOTHA -- chapter 4 Religious conflict, radicalism, and sexual exceptionalism in the rhetoric of John Chrysostom / CHRIS L. DE WET -- chapter 5 Give it up for God: wealth, suffering, and the rhetoric of religious persecution in John of Ephesus’s Church History / CHRISTINE SHEPARDSON -- chapter 6 Epiphanies and religious conflict: the contests over the Hagiasma of Chonai / ALAN H. CADWALLADER -- part Part III Christianization -- chapter 7 Contested domains in the conflicts between the early Christian mission and Diaspora Judaism according to the Book of Acts / CHRISTOPH STENSCHKE -- chapter 8 Christianisation and late antique patronage: conflicts and everyday nuisances MAIJASTINA KAHLOS -- part Part IV Threats of violence -- chapter 9 Religious violence in late antique Egypt reconsidered: the cases of Alexandria, Panopolis, and Philae / JITSE H. F. DIJKSTRA -- chapter 10 “A wise madness”: a virtue-based model for crowd behaviour in late antiquity / PETER VAN NUFFELEN -- part Part V Ancient and modern intersections -- chapter 11 Collaboration and identity in the aftermath of persecution: religious conflict and its legacy / ELIZABETH DEPALMA DIGESER -- chapter 12 The usefulness of violent ends: apocalyptic imaginaries in the reconstruction of society / GERHARD VAN DEN HEEVER.