The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries
Biographical note
William V. Harris teaches Greek and Roman History at Columbia University. His most recent books are Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger-Control in Classical Antiquity (2002), and (as editor and contributor) Rethinking the Mediterranean (2005).
Readership
All those interested in the early history of Christianity or in religious revolutions more generally; sociologists of religion.
Reviews
'..this book is valuable because it does challenge some of our traditional viewpoints on why the Christians eventually managed to gain victory.'
Hennie Stander, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006
Hennie Stander, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006
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