Old society, new belief : religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th centuries / Mu-Chou Poo, H.A. Drake, and Lisa Raphals.
2017
BR170
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Old society, new belief : religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th centuries / Mu-Chou Poo, H.A. Drake, and Lisa Raphals.
ISBN
9780190278373 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
BR170
Dewey Decimal Classification
274.01
Summary
In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: in that century, missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in the Roman empire and the Buddha in China. Both were not only ancient cultures but also cultures whose elites felt no particular urgency to adopt a new religion. Yet a few centuries later, the two new faiths had become so well established that their names were virtually synonymous with the polities they had entered as strangers. This work brings together specialists in the history and religion of Rome and China with a twofold aim.
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In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: in that century, missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in the Roman empire and the Buddha in China. Both were not only ancient cultures but also cultures whose elites felt no particular urgency to adopt a new religion. Yet a few centuries later, the two new faiths had become so well established that their names were virtually synonymous with the polities they had entered as strangers. This work brings together specialists in the history and religion of Rome and China with a twofold aim.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 9, 2017).
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Print version: 9780190278359
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