A State of Mixture : Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity /
"A State of Mixture seeks to resolve the paradox of how East Syrian Christian communities flourished in a Zoroastrian political system, the Iranian Empire. If previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted, the present book demonstrates their integration in...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The myth of Zoroastrian intolerance : violence and the terms of Christian inclusion
- Belonging to a land : Christians and Zoroastrians in the Iranian highlands
- Christian lawmaking and Iranian social practice : the reforms of Mar Aba
- Creating a Christian aristocracy : hagiography and empire in northern Mesopotamia
- The Christian symbolics of power in a Zoroastrian empire.