LEADER 04042nam 2200721 450 001 9910460709603321 005 20210513220737.0 010 $a0-520-96153-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520961531 035 $a(CKB)3710000000432040 035 $a(EBL)2025599 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001517879 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11821470 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001517879 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11509166 035 $a(PQKB)10801228 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001371709 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2025599 035 $a(OCoLC)911200767 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47193 035 $a(DE-B1597)521105 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520961531 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2025599 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11066844 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL801636 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000432040 100 $a20150629h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA state of mixture $eChristians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian political culture in late Antiquity /$fRichard E. Payne 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 1 $aTransformation of the Classical Heritage ;$v56 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-29245-6 311 0 $a0-520-28619-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tA Note on Names, Translations, and Transliterations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Myth of Zoroastrian Intolerance --$t2. Belonging to a Land --$t3. Christian Law Making and Iranian Political Practice --$t4. Creating a Christian Aristocracy --$t5. The Christian Symbolics of Power in a Zoroastrian Empire --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aChristian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks. Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted participants in this empire, Richard Payne demonstrates their integration into elite networks, adoption of Iranian political practices and imaginaries, and participation in imperial institutions. The rise of Christianity in Iran depended on the Zoroastrian theory and practice of hierarchical, differentiated inclusion, according to which Christians, Jews, and others occupied legitimate places in Iranian political culture in positions subordinate to the imperial religion. Christians, for their part, positioned themselves in a political culture not of their own making, with recourse to their own ideological and institutional resources, ranging from the writing of saints' lives to the judicial arbitration of bishops. In placing the social history of East Syrian Christians at the center of the Iranian imperial story, A State of Mixture helps explain the endurance of a culturally diverse empire across four centuries. 410 0$aTransformation of the classical heritage ;$v56. 606 $aChristianity and other religions$xZoroastrianism 606 $aChristianity and politics$zIran$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aZoroastrianism$xRelations$xChristianity 606 $aChristians$zIran$xSocial conditions$yTo 1500 607 $aIran$xCivilization$yTo 640 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristianity and other religions$xZoroastrianism. 615 0$aChristianity and politics$xHistory 615 0$aZoroastrianism$xRelations$xChristianity. 615 0$aChristians$xSocial conditions 676 $a275.5/03 700 $aPayne$b Richard E.$f1981-$0985171 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460709603321 996 $aA state of mixture$92462087 997 $aUNINA