Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity. By Jeremy M. Schott
New theoretical approaches developed by literary critics and philosophers often shed fresh light on familiar historical problems. But no single theoretical approach out of the many recently developed illuminates every historical problem or sheds equal light on every period of history. Any theoretica...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 337-340 |
| Review of: | Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity (Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) (Barnes, T. D.)
Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) (Barnes, T. D.) |
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| Summary: | New theoretical approaches developed by literary critics and philosophers often shed fresh light on familiar historical problems. But no single theoretical approach out of the many recently developed illuminates every historical problem or sheds equal light on every period of history. Any theoretical approach thus needs to be justified before being applied. In his new book Jeremy Schott regrettably fails to discuss which theoretical approach is best suited to his subject. Having promised to avoid a ‘territorial framework’ and ‘familiar narratives’ (p. 3), he merely affirms that ‘the theoretical bases of [his] approach to Roman imperialism lie in the insights of postcolonial theory and postcolonial discourse analysis’ (p. 9). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp139 |