A State of Mixture : Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Richard E., 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Zoroastrianism.
Interfaith relations.
Civilization.
Christians > Social conditions.
Christianity and politics.
Christianity.
RELIGION > Ancient.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Chretiens > Iran > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1500.
Christianisme > Relations > Zoroastrisme.
Christians > Iran > Social conditions > To 1500.
Zoroastrianism > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and politics > Iran > History > To 1500.
Christianity and other religions > Zoroastrianism.
Iran.
Iran > Civilisation > Jusqu'à 651.
Iran > Civilization > To 640.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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