Papers presented at a workshop of the same title, held October 9, 2010, at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels--Preface. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Religion and competition in antiquity : an introduction / David Engels, Peter van Nuffelen -- Religious rivalry in Seleucid Babylonia : Marduk of Babylon versus Anu of Uruk / Tom Boiy -- Oracles and oracl-sellers : an ancient market in futures / Esther Eidinow -- Liberty versus religious tradition : some "impious" thinkers in ancient Greece / Aikaterini Lefka -- Etrusca disciplina and Roman religion : from initial hesitation to a privileged place / Dominique Briquel -- Cohabitation or competition in Ostia under the Empire? / Françoise van Haeperen -- The end of open competition? : religious disputations in late antiquity / Peter van Nuffelen -- Competing coenobites : food and drink in the Lives of Theodoretus of Cyrrhus / Veit Rosenberger -- A time for prayer and a time for pleasure : Christianity's struggle with the secular world / Ine Jacobs -- The conquest of the past : Christian attitudes towards civic history / Aude Busine -- Historising religion between spiritual continuity and friendly takeover : salvation history and religious competition during the first millennium A.D. / David Engels -- Oriental religions and the conversion of the Roman Empire : the views of Ernest Renan and of Franz Cumont on the transition from traditional paganism to Christianity / Danny Praet.
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