Early Christianity – Page 2 – Memories of Utopia

Reconceiving Religious Conflict

W. Mayer and C.L. de Wet (eds.) (Routledge; New York, NY: 2018) 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 […]

Transformation of Mediterranean Ritual Spaces from Late Antiquity to the Early Arab Conquests: Material Evidence

By Leonela Fundic Macquarie University Over the period from the fourth to the beginning of the eighth centuries, sacred landscapes in the Mediterranean underwent fundamental changes, which were caused by (or were the reflection of) cultural and artistic interactions between different religions and their utopian ideals. Firstly, the expansion of Christianity and decline of paganism […]