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The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century's dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked pagan holy sites and temples. The emperors who issued these laws, the imperial officials charged with implementing them, and the Christian perpetrators of religious violence were almost exclusively young men whose attitudes and actions contrasted markedly with those of the earlier generation, who shared neither their juniors' interest in creating sharply defined religious identities nor their propensity for violent conflict. Watts examines why the "final pagan generation"-born to the old ways and the old world in which it seemed to everyone that religious practices would continue as they had for the past two thousand years-proved both unable to anticipate the changes that imperially sponsored Christianity produced and unwilling to resist them. A compelling and provocative read, suitable for the general reader as well as students and scholars of the ancient world.

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Sacrifice dominated the religious landscape of the ancient Mediterranean world for millennia, but its role and meaning changed dramatically in the fourth and fifth centuries with the rise of Christianity. Daniel Ullucci offers a new explanation of this remarkable transformation, in the process demonstrating the complexity of the concept of sacrifice in Roman, Greek, and Jewish religion. The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice challenges the predominant scholarly model, which posits a connection between so-called critiques of sacrifice in non-Christian Greek, Latin, and Hebrew texts and the Christian rejection of animal sacrifice. According to this model, pre-Christian authors attacked the propriety of animal sacrifice as a religious practice, and Christians responded by replacing animal sacrifice with a pure, ''spiritual'' 'worship. This historical construction influences prevailing views of animal sacrifice even today, casting it as barbaric, backward, and primitive despite the fact that it is still practiced in such contemporary religions as Islam and Santeria. Rather than interpret the entire history of animal sacrifice through the lens of the Christian master narrative, Ullucci shows that the ancient texts must be seen not simply as critiques but as part of an ongoing competition between elite cultural producers to define the meaning and purpose of sacrifice. He reveals that Christian authors were not merely purveyors of pure spiritual religion, but a cultural elite vying for legitimacy and influence in societies that long predated them. The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice is a crucial reinterpretation of the history of one of humanity's oldest and most fascinating rituals.

Animal sacrifice --- Christianity and other religions --- Christian sociology --- Sacrifice d'animaux --- Christianisme --- Sociologie religieuse --- History of doctrines --- History --- Histoire des doctrines --- Relations --- Histoire --- Rome --- Religious life and customs. --- Vie religieuse --- -Christianity and other religions --- -Christian sociology --- -291.34 --- Christian social theory --- Social theory, Christian --- Sociology, Christian --- Sociology --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Sacrifice --- -History --- -Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- 291.34 Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- 291.34 --- Animal sacrifice - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Christianity and other religions - Rome. --- Christian sociology - History - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Rome - Religious life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Doctrines religieuses --- Religion. --- Religion romaine.

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