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020			_a9781107338364 (ebook)
020			_z9781107043442 (hardback)
020			_z9781107655041 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aBL805 _b.C65 2013
082	0	0	_a200.937 _223
100	1		_aCollar, Anna, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aReligious Networks in the Roman Empire : _bThe Spread of New Ideas / _cAnna Collar.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (336 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe first three centuries AD saw the spread of new religious ideas through the Roman Empire, crossing a vast and diverse geographical, social and cultural space. In this innovative study, Anna Collar explores both how this happened and why. Drawing on research in the sociology and anthropology of religion, physics and computer science, Collar explores the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to explore why some religious movements succeed, while others, seemingly equally successful at a certain time, ultimately fail. Using extensive epigraphic data, Collar provides new interpretations of the diffusion of ideas across the social networks of the Jewish Diaspora and the cults of Jupiter Dolichenus and Theos Hypsistos, and in turn offers important reappraisals of the spread of religious innovations in the Roman Empire. This study will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of ancient history, archaeology, ancient religion and network theory.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107043442
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338364
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37376 _d37376