04042nam 2200721 450 991046070960332120210513220737.00-520-96153-610.1525/9780520961531(CKB)3710000000432040(EBL)2025599(SSID)ssj0001517879(PQKBManifestationID)11821470(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001517879(PQKBWorkID)11509166(PQKB)10801228(StDuBDS)EDZ0001371709(MiAaPQ)EBC2025599(OCoLC)911200767(MdBmJHUP)muse47193(DE-B1597)521105(DE-B1597)9780520961531(Au-PeEL)EBL2025599(CaPaEBR)ebr11066844(CaONFJC)MIL801636(EXLCZ)99371000000043204020150629h20152015 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrA state of mixture Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian political culture in late Antiquity /Richard E. PayneOakland, California :University of California Press,2015.©20151 online resource (320 p.)Transformation of the Classical Heritage ;56Description based upon print version of record.0-520-29245-6 0-520-28619-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --A Note on Names, Translations, and Transliterations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. The Myth of Zoroastrian Intolerance --2. Belonging to a Land --3. Christian Law Making and Iranian Political Practice --4. Creating a Christian Aristocracy --5. The Christian Symbolics of Power in a Zoroastrian Empire --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --IndexChristian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks. Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted participants in this empire, Richard Payne demonstrates their integration into elite networks, adoption of Iranian political practices and imaginaries, and participation in imperial institutions. The rise of Christianity in Iran depended on the Zoroastrian theory and practice of hierarchical, differentiated inclusion, according to which Christians, Jews, and others occupied legitimate places in Iranian political culture in positions subordinate to the imperial religion. Christians, for their part, positioned themselves in a political culture not of their own making, with recourse to their own ideological and institutional resources, ranging from the writing of saints' lives to the judicial arbitration of bishops. In placing the social history of East Syrian Christians at the center of the Iranian imperial story, A State of Mixture helps explain the endurance of a culturally diverse empire across four centuries.Transformation of the classical heritage ;56.Christianity and other religionsZoroastrianismChristianity and politicsIranHistoryTo 1500ZoroastrianismRelationsChristianityChristiansIranSocial conditionsTo 1500IranCivilizationTo 640Electronic books.Christianity and other religionsZoroastrianism.Christianity and politicsHistoryZoroastrianismRelationsChristianity.ChristiansSocial conditions275.5/03Payne Richard E.1981-985171MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460709603321A state of mixture2462087UNINA