TY - BOOK ID - 80827793 TI - Cities of God AU - Gange, David AU - Ledger-Lomas, Michael PY - 2013 SN - 9780511783647 9781107004245 9781461950813 1461950813 0511783647 1107004241 1139890336 1107501830 1107500605 1107506077 1107516447 1107496284 1107503450 1316625656 9781139890335 9781107501836 9781107500600 9781107506077 9781107516441 9781107496286 9781107503458 PB - Cambridge New York DB - UniCat KW - Archaeology KW - Archeology KW - Anthropology KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - History KW - Antiquities KW - Bible KW - Antiquities. KW - Middle East KW - Social Sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80827793 AB - The history of archaeology is generally told as the making of a secular discipline. In nineteenth-century Britain, however, archaeology was enmeshed with questions of biblical authority and so with religious as well as narrowly scholarly concerns. In unearthing the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, travellers, archaeologists and their popularisers transformed thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This happened at a time when anxieties over the unprecedented rate of urbanisation in Britain coincided with critical challenges to biblical truth. In this context, cities from Jerusalem to Rome became contested models for the adaptation of Christianity to modern urban life. Using sites from across the biblical world, this book evokes the appeal of the ancient city to diverse groups of British Protestants in their arguments with one another and with their secular and Catholic rivals about the vitality of their faith in urban Britain. ER -