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How Long Does it Take to Read Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity by Jeremy M. Schott

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In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E. During this turbulent period, which began with Diocletian's persecution of the Christians and ended with Constantine's assumption of sole rule and the consolidation of a new Christian empire, Christian apologists and anti-Christian polemicists launched a number of literary salvos in a battle for the minds and souls of the empire. Schott focuses on the works of the Platonist philosopher and anti- Christian polemicist Porphyry of Tyre and his Christian respondents: the Latin rhetorician Lactantius, Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, and the emperor Constantine. Previous scholarship has tended to narrate the Christianization of the empire in terms of a new religion's penetration and conquest of classical culture and society. The present work, in contrast, seeks to suspend the static, essentializing conceptualizations of religious identity that lie behind many studies of social and political change in late antiquity in order to investigate the processes through which Christian and pagan identities were constructed. Drawing on the insights of postcolonial discourse analysis, Schott argues that the production of Christian identity and, in turn, the construction of a Christian imperial discourse were intimately and inseparably linked to the broader politics of Roman imperialism.

How long is Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity?

Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity by Jeremy M. Schott is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity aloud.

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Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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