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This is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with the pagan critics of the second century CE. The reference to a hysterical woman was made by the most prolific critic of Christianity, Celsus. He was referring to a follower of Jesus - probably Mary Magdalene - who was at the centre of efforts to create and promote belief in the resurrection. MacDonald draws attention to the conviction, emerging from the works of several pagan authors, that female initiative was central to Christianity's development; she sets out to explore the relationship between this and the common Greco-Roman belief that women were inclined towards excesses in religion. The findings of cultural anthropologists of Mediterranean societies are examined in an effort to probe the societal values that shaped public opinion and early church teaching. Concerns expressed in New Testament and early Christian texts about the respectability of women, and even generally about their behaviour, are seen in a new light when one appreciates that outsiders focused on early church women and understood their activities as a reflection of the group as a whole.

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Church and state --- Church history --- Citizenship --- Religious minorities --- Minorities --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Christianity and state --- Separation of church and state --- State and church --- State, The --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Law and legislation

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Monasticism and religious orders --- Church history --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- Eglise --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Church history. --- Histoire religieuse --- -Monasticism and religious orders --- -Monachism --- Monastic orders --- Monasticism and religious orders for men --- Monasticism and religious orders of men --- Orders, Monastic --- Religious orders --- Brotherhoods --- Christian communities --- Brothers (Religious) --- Friars --- Monks --- Superiors, Religious --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- -History --- -Egypt --- -Brotherhoods --- Monachism --- Orders, Religious --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Monasticism and religious orders - Egypt - History --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Monasticism and religious orders - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

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This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focusses on the eastern ""Greek"" provinces in the first and second centuries A.D.--the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire. His purpose is to show how the local elite classes appropriated and manipulated mythic and religious images and practices to establish and consolidate their social, political, and economic power. Edwards considers both archaeological and literary evidence.

Church history --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Power (Social sciences) --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Brotherhood Week --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Greek. --- Roman. --- Judaism. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Rome --- Middle East --- Religion. --- 261.2 --- 27 "00/05" --- 261.2 De Kerk en het klassieke heidendom --- De Kerk en het klassieke heidendom --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Greek religion --- Roman religion --- Relations&delete& --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/05" --- Religion --- History --- Greek religion. --- Roman religion.

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History of Europe --- Canon law --- Christian church history --- anno 500-1499 --- Antiquity --- Church history --- Church and state --- Papacy --- Popes --- Eglise --- Eglise et Etat --- Papauté --- Papes --- History --- Temporal power --- Histoire --- Pouvoir temporel --- Augustine, --- Influence --- -Church and state --- -Church history --- -261.7 --- #GGSB: Kerkgeschiedenis (oudheid) --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- Christianity and state --- Separation of church and state --- State and church --- State, The --- De Kerk en de burgerlijke macht: Kerk en Staat; godsdienstvrijheid; verdraagzaamheid; tolerantie:--theologische aspecten --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- 261.7 De Kerk en de burgerlijke macht: Kerk en Staat; godsdienstvrijheid; verdraagzaamheid; tolerantie:--theologische aspecten --- -History of Europe --- Papauté --- Influence. --- 261.7 --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Kerkgeschiedenis (oudheid)