Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Associations in Roman Asia

1. Associations and Guilds: Varieties and Social Makeup
2. Internal Activities and Purposes: Honoring the Gods, Feasting with Friends
3. Associations in Civic Context: Symptoms of Decline or Participants in Vitality?

Part 2: Imperial Cults and Connections among Associations

4. Imperial Gods within Religious Life: Cultic Honors
5. Positive Interaction: Imperial Connections and Monumental Honors
6. Tensions in Perspective: Civic Disturbances and Official Intervention

Part 3: Synagogues and Congregations within Society

7. Comparing Socioreligious Groups in Antiquity
8. Positive Interaction: Jews, Christians, and Imperial Honors in the Greek City
9. Tensions in Perspective: Imperial Cults, Persecution, and the Apocalypse of John

Conclusion

Appendix: Some Dionysiac Associations

Bibliography

 

 

 

 

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