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• catalog abstract "This book examines the organization of religion in the Roman empire from Augustus to Constantine. Although there have been illuminating particular studies of the relationship between religious activity and socio-political authority in the empire, there has been no large-scale attempt to assess it as a whole. Taking as his focus the situation in Carthage, the greatest city of the western provinces, J. B. Rives argues that traditional religion, predicated on the structure of a city-state, could not serve to integrate individuals into an empire. In upholding traditional religion, the government abandoned the sort of political control of religious behaviour characteristic of the Roman Republic, and allowed people to determine their own religious identities. The importance of Christianity was thus that it provided the model for a new type of religious control suited to the needs of the increasingly homogeneous Roman empire.".
• catalog contributor b7472957.
• catalog coverage "Carthage (Extinct city) Church history.".
• catalog coverage "Carthage (Extinct city) Religion.".
• catalog created "1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
• catalog description "I. Public religion in Roman Carthage. Mise-en-scène -- The organization of public religion -- The cults of Rome -- Imperial cult -- The role of the emperor -- The role of the proconsul -- The provincial assembly -- The nature of official religion -- II. The agenda of the local élite. Roman and African in Thugga -- The rise of a Romano-African élite -- The importance of native cults -- The Punic past in Carthage -- Local identity and Roman identity -- III. The failure of the civic model. The nature of élite control -- The interests of individuals -- Texts and experts -- Cult associations -- Jews in Carthage -- Christians in Carthage -- Imperial policy -- Religious authority and religious identity -- IV. Religious authority and the Roman state. In search of official religion -- Alternative models -- Tertullian -- Cyprian and the Roman élite -- Cyprian and episcopal authority -- Religion and authority.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-326) and index.".
• catalog description "This book examines the organization of religion in the Roman empire from Augustus to Constantine. Although there have been illuminating particular studies of the relationship between religious activity and socio-political authority in the empire, there has been no large-scale attempt to assess it as a whole. Taking as his focus the situation in Carthage, the greatest city of the western provinces, J. B. Rives argues that traditional religion, predicated on the structure of a city-state, could not serve to integrate individuals into an empire. In upholding traditional religion, the government abandoned the sort of political control of religious behaviour characteristic of the Roman Republic, and allowed people to determine their own religious identities. The importance of Christianity was thus that it provided the model for a new type of religious control suited to the needs of the increasingly homogeneous Roman empire.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 334 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0198140835 (alk. paper) :".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Carthage (Extinct city) Church history.".
• catalog spatial "Carthage (Extinct city) Religion.".
• catalog spatial "Tunisia Carthage (Extinct city)".
• catalog subject "291.6/5/093973 20".
• catalog subject "BL813.C37 R58 1995".
• catalog subject "Church and state Tunisia Carthage (Extinct city) History.".
• catalog subject "Religion and state Tunisia Carthage (Extinct city) History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "I. Public religion in Roman Carthage. Mise-en-scène -- The organization of public religion -- The cults of Rome -- Imperial cult -- The role of the emperor -- The role of the proconsul -- The provincial assembly -- The nature of official religion -- II. The agenda of the local élite. Roman and African in Thugga -- The rise of a Romano-African élite -- The importance of native cults -- The Punic past in Carthage -- Local identity and Roman identity -- III. The failure of the civic model. The nature of élite control -- The interests of individuals -- Texts and experts -- Cult associations -- Jews in Carthage -- Christians in Carthage -- Imperial policy -- Religious authority and religious identity -- IV. Religious authority and the Roman state. In search of official religion -- Alternative models -- Tertullian -- Cyprian and the Roman élite -- Cyprian and episcopal authority -- Religion and authority.".
• catalog title "Religion and authority in Roman Carthage from Augustus to Constantine / J.B. Rives.".
• catalog type "Church history. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".