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Digeser Elizabeth DePalma <1959-> |
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A threat to public piety [[electronic resource] ] : Christians, Platonists, and the great persecution / / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser |
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 |
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1 online resource (218 pages) |
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Persecution - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 |
Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 |
Christianity - Philosophy - History |
Platonists |
Violence - Philosophy |
Philosophy and religion |
Violence - Religious aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: From Permeable Circles to Hardened Boundaries -- 1. Ammonius Saccas and the Philosophy without Conflicts -- 2. Origen as a Student of Ammonius -- 3. Plotinus, Porphyry, and Philosophy in the Public Realm -- 4. Schism in the Ammonian Community: Porphyry v. Iamblichus -- 5. Schism in the Ammonian Community: Porphyry v. Methodius of Olympus -- Conclusion: The Ammonian Community and the Great Persecution -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303-313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced the toleration of Christianity within the Empire. Challenging the widely accepted view that the persecution enacted by Emperor Diocletian was largely inevitable, she points out that in the forty years leading up to the Great Persecution Christians lived largely in peace with their fellow Roman citizens. Why, Digeser asks, did pagans and Christians, who had intermingled cordially and productively for decades, become so sharply |
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divided by the turn of the century?Making use of evidence that has only recently been dated to this period, Digeser shows that a falling out between Neo-Platonist philosophers, specifically Iamblichus and Porphyry, lit the spark that fueled the Great Persecution. In the aftermath of this falling out, a group of influential pagan priests and philosophers began writing and speaking against Christians, urging them to forsake Jesus-worship and to rejoin traditional cults while Porphyry used his access to Diocletian to advocate persecution of Christians on the grounds that they were a source of impurity and impiety within the empire.The first book to explore in depth the intellectual social milieu of the late third century, A Threat to Public Piety revises our understanding of the period by revealing the extent to which Platonist philosophers (Ammonius, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus) and Christian theologians (Origen, Eusebius) came from a common educational tradition, often studying and teaching side by side in heterogeneous groups. |
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UNINA9910255285903321 |
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Lamond Ian R. |
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The 2015 UK General Election and the 2016 EU Referendum : Towards a Democracy of the Spectacle / / by Ian R. Lamond, Chelsea Reid |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
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[1st ed. 2017.] |
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1 online resource (XVI, 88 p.) |
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Communication in politics |
Elections |
Europe - Politics and government |
Journalism |
Political sociology |
Political Communication |
Electoral Politics |
European Politics |
Political Sociology |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- PART I -- 1: Bringing together political communication and critical event studies -- 2: Models of democracy -- PART II -- 3: The 2015 UK General Election -- 4: The 2016 EU Referendum -- 5: Conclusion -- Annex: Beyond the UK. |
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This book brings together the established field of political communication and the emerging field of critical event studies to develop new questions and approaches. Using this combined framework, it reflects upon how we should understand the expression of democratic participation in mainstream mass media during the 2015 UK General Election and the 2016 referendum on Britain's membership of the EU. Are we now living in an era where democratic participation is much more concerned with spectacle rather than substantive debate? The book addresses this conceptual journey and reflects on differing models of democratic participation, before applying that framework to the two identified case studies. Finally, the authors consider what it means to be living in a period of democratic spectacle, where political events have become evental politics. The book will be of use to students and scholars across the fields of political science and culture and media studies, as well as wide readers interested in the current issues facing British politics. . |
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