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The following is a selection of books published by the Professors in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies.

Latest Publications

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The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs

In the 1640s鈥攁 decade of epidemic and warfare across colonial North America鈥攅ight Jesuit missionaries met their deaths at the hands of native antagonists. With their collective canonization in 1930, these men, known to the devout as the North American martyrs, would become the continent鈥檚 first official Catholic saints. In鈥疶he Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs, Emma Anderson untangles the complexities of these seminal acts of violence and their ever-changing legacy across the centuries. While exploring how Jesuit missionaries perceived their terrifying final hours, the work also seeks to comprehend the motivations of the those who confronted them from the other side of the axe, musket, or caldron of boiling water, and to illuminate the experiences of those native Catholics who, though they died alongside their missionary mentors, have yet to receive comparable recognition as martyrs by the Catholic Church. 

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Deep Equality in an Era of Religious Diversity

While religious conflict receives plenty of attention, the everyday negotiation of religious diversity does not. Questions of how to accommodate religious minorities and of the limits of tolerance resonate in a variety of contexts and have become central preoccupations for many Western democracies. What might we see if we turned our attention to the positive narratives and success stories of the everyday working out of religious difference? Through the stories of ordinary people, this book traces deep equality, which is found in the respect, humour, and friendship of seemingly mundane interactions. Deep Equality in an Era of Religious Diversity shows that the telling of such stories can create an alternative narrative to that of diversity as a problem to be solved. It explores the non-event, or micro-processes, of interaction that constitute the foundation for deep equality and the conditions under which deep equality emerges, exists, and flourishes. 

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Religion in the Context of Globalization

Peter Beyer has been a central figure in the debate about religion and globalization for many years. Religion in the Context of Globalization is a collection of essays on the relation between religion and globalization with special emphasis on the concept of religion, its modern forms and on the relation of religion to the state. 

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Making Amulets Christian

Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice鈥攖he writing of incantations on amulets鈥攃hanged in an increasingly Christian context. It considers how the formulation of incantations and amulets changed as the Christian church became the prevailing religious institution in Egypt in the last centuries of the Roman empire. Theodore de Bruyn investigates what we can learn from incantations and amulets containing Christian elements about the cultural and social location of the people who wrote them. He argues for 鈥榗onditioned individuality鈥 in the production of amulets. On the one hand, amulets manifest qualities that reflect the training and culture of the individual writer. On the other hand, amulets reveal that individual writers were shaped, whether consciously or inadvertently, by the resources they drew upon鈥攂y what is called 鈥榯radition鈥 in the field of religious studies 

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Histoire d'une r茅incarnation

(Content in French only)

Histoire d鈥檜ne r茅incarnation : Sur la route des routes des derviches. Montr茅al, 脡ditions Rouge, 2013. Prix litt茅raire Jacques-Poirier - Salon du livre de l鈥橭utaouais 2014. 

Le voyage initiatique de Daniel Simon, 茅tudiant 脿 la facult茅 de m茅decine de Montpellier, d茅bute avec l鈥櫭﹑id茅mie de peste de 1378. L鈥檋istoire le transporte ensuite 脿 G锚nes, puis 脿 Smyrne. Le destin de Daniel finira par heurter de plein fouet celui de Tamerlan, l鈥檜n des plus sanguinaires despotes de l鈥檋istoire de l鈥檋umanit茅. Durant sa captivit茅, le protagoniste de l鈥檋istoire rencontre une pl茅iade de personnages pittoresques. Sa vie sera transform茅e par la rencontre d鈥檜n chaman converti 脿 une myst茅rieuse confr茅rie soufie. Ce roman historique d茅crit le triste sort r茅serv茅 脿 ceux et 脿 celles qui se trouvent sur la route des derviches. 

* Prix litt茅raire Jacques-Poirier - Salon du livre de l鈥橭utaouais 2014.

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Mosaics of Time

Chronicles seem to be everywhere in ancient and medieval history. Now for the first time, R. W. Burgess and Michael Kulikowski present a diachronic study of chronicles, annals, and consularia from the twenty-fifth century BC to the twelfth century AD, demonstrating the origins and interlinked traditions of the oldest and longest continuing genre of historical writing in the Western world. This introductory volume of Mosaics of Time provides both the detailed context for the study of the Latin chronicle traditions that occupies the remaining three volumes of this series as well as a general study of chronicles across three millennia from the ancient Egyptian Palermo Stone to the medieval European chronicle of Sigebert of Gembloux and beyond. The work is an essential companion to ancient and medieval history, historiography, and literary studies.

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De l'enseignement 脿 l'ex茅g猫se

(Content in French only)

Longtemps consid茅r茅e comme l鈥檋茅riti猫re du dialogue philosophique, g茅n茅rateur de pens茅e innovatrice, la litt茅rature par questions et r茅ponses est envisag茅e dans De l鈥檈nseignement 脿 l鈥檈x茅g猫se sous l鈥檃ngle de l鈥檌nstruction dans un univers christianis茅. Les textes formul茅s en questions et r茅ponses dans un but p茅dagogique ont en effet connu une grande popularit茅 et se sont d茅velopp茅s au point de ne plus 锚tre ni un r茅v茅lateur de pens茅e, comme le fut le dialogue philosophique, ni un instrument de m茅morisation, comme l鈥櫭﹖aient les questions sur les 艙uvres d鈥橦om猫re, mais plut么t en vue de rassembler des collections de mini-trait茅s ou de commentaires sur l鈥櫭塩riture ou des enseignements sur la vie du fid猫le. Les textes r茅unis dans ce volume explorent la port茅e didactique du genre des questions et r茅ponses ex茅g茅tiques, du dialogue dans la litt茅rature initiatique chr茅tienne gnostique, valentinienne, ou dans la litt茅rature p茅dagogique tardive, afin de cerner les proc茅d茅s didactiques, mais aussi le ton et le public auquel s鈥檃dressent ces enseignements.

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Dialogues d'histoire ancienne

D猫s les origines, dans l鈥橝th猫nes des sophistes et de P茅ricl猫s, la rh茅torique entretient des relations complexes avec le pouvoir politique. L鈥檋istoire, dans ses premi猫res manifestations, n鈥檈st pas 茅trang猫re non plus 脿 une certaine alliance du discours et du politique. Les contributions r茅unies par D. C么t茅 et P. Fleury (dir.) dans Discours politique et Histoire dans l鈥橝ntiquit茅, fruits de la r茅flexion de sp茅cialistes canadiens et europ茅ens, proposent d鈥檈xaminer les rapports qui existent entre le discours politique et l鈥檋istoire dans l鈥橝ntiquit茅. Quelle prise de position politique se dessine derri猫re le r茅cit de l鈥檋istorien? Quelle manipulation de l鈥檋istoire se d茅ploie 脿 travers le discours de l鈥檕rateur? Voil脿 quelques-unes des questions que soul猫vent les auteurs de cet ouvrage en faisant porter leur enqu锚te aussi bien sur Ath猫nes que sur Rome et jusqu鈥檃ux rivages lointains de Constantinople.

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The Coptic Life of Aaron

Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary 
Authors:鈥疛acques van der Vliet鈥痑nd鈥疛itse Dijkstra 

The Life of Aaron is one of the most interesting and sophisticated hagiographical works surviving in Coptic. The work contains descriptions of the lives of ascetic monks, in particular Apa Aaron, on the southern Egyptian frontier in the fourth and early fifth centuries, and was probably written in the sixth century. Even though the first edition of this work was already published by E.A. Wallis Budge in 1915, a critical edition remained outstanding. In this book Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Jacques van der Vliet present not only a critical text, for the most part based on the only completely preserved, tenth-century manuscript, but also a new translation and an exhaustive commentary addressing philological, literary and historical aspects of the text.

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Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty

Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty 鈥 as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. The authors in Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty provide a multi-dimensional picture of how the category of religion has served the ends of modern government. They draw on perspectives from history, anthropology, moral philosophy, theology and religious studies, as well as empirical analysis of India, Japan, Mexico, the United States, Israel-Palestine, France and the United Kingdom.

More recent publications

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The World of Procopius

This book draws together contributions from twenty specialists in Procopian studies. They throw interesting new light on a range of topics, concerning both the author himself and the world he inhabited. The volume is divided into four sections, covering 6th-century society, the past and present in Procopius鈥 works, Procopius and military history and his treatment of foreign peoples. From it emerges a well-rounded portrait both of the author and of the society in which he lived and wrote. 

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础辫辞肠谤测辫丑颈迟茅蝉

(Content in French only)

Les vingt-une 茅tudes dans鈥”璐浅Π獗璩缶背倜┎踱痳epr茅sentent le fruit de vingt-cinq ans de recherches consacr茅es aux ph茅nom猫nes scripturaires du juda茂sme et du christianisme anciens, qu鈥檌l s鈥檃gisse de la mise en chantier des diff茅rentes 茅ditions du livre de J茅r茅mie et de ses r茅茅critures 芦 apocryphes 禄 (l鈥橦istoire de la captivit茅 babylonienne et les Paralipom猫nes de J茅r茅mie), de l鈥櫭﹙olution de la litt茅rature 芦 apocalyptique 禄 jud茅enne et chr茅tienne (du 1er H茅noch 脿 l鈥橝pocalypse de Paul, en passant par le 4e Esdras et l鈥橝pocalypse de Pierre), de la retranscription des traditions m茅morielles au sujet de J茅sus (dans l鈥櫭塿angile selon Thomas et dans les dialogues de r茅v茅lation de Nag Hammadi) et de leurs r茅茅critures 耻濒迟茅谤颈别耻谤别蝉 (dans le Livre du coq et autres 茅vangiles tardo-antiques de la Passion), voire de leur r茅invention moderne (comme dans le cas de certaines productions romanesques contemporaines ou dans celui beaucoup plus d茅licat de l鈥櫭塿angile secret de Marc). Ces 茅tudes d茅montrent qu鈥櫭 l鈥檌nstar de leurs coll猫gues jud茅ens, les narrateurs chr茅tiens n鈥檕nt eu de cesse de r茅actualiser les r茅cits sur les origines du mouvement de J茅sus, et que, contrairement aux id茅es re莽ues, la fronti猫re entre canonicit茅 et apocryphit茅 a toujours 茅t茅 (et continue d鈥櫭猼re) extr锚mement poreuse et fluctuante.

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The Samaritans: A Profile

In鈥疶he Samaritans: A Profile, Reinhard Pummer, one of the world鈥檚 foremost experts on Samaritanism, offers a comprehensive introduction to the people identified as Samaritans in both biblical and nonbiblical sources. Besides analyzing the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, he examines the Samaritan鈥 history, their geographical distribution, their version of the Pentateuch, their rituals and customs, and their situation today.