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Summary:

"A State of Mixture seeks to resolve the paradox of how East Syrian Christian communities flourished in a Zoroastrian political system, the Iranian Empire. If previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted, the present book demonstrates their integration into elite networks, adoption of Iranian political practices and imaginaries, and participation in imperial institutions. The rise of Christianity in Iran depended on the Zoroastrian theory and practice of hierarchical, differentiated inclusion, according to which Christians, Jews, and others occupied legitimate places in Iranian political culture in positions subordinate to the imperial religion. Christians, for their part, positioned themselves in a political culture not of their own making with recourse to their own ideological and institutional resources, ranging from the writing of saints' lives to the judicial arbitration of bishops. In placing the social history of East Syrian Christians at the center of the Iranian imperial story, A State of Mixture helps to explain the endurance of a culturally diverse empire across four centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Myth of Zoroastrian Intolerance: Violence and the Terms of Christian Inclusion
• 2. Belonging to a Land: Christians and Zoroastrians in the Iranian Highlands
• 3. Christian Law Making and Iranian Political Practice: The Reforms of Mar Aba
• 4. Creating a Christian Aristocracy: Hagiography and Empire in Northern Mesopotamia
• 5. Christian Symbolics of Power in a Zoroastrian Empire.

Author/Creator:

Payne, Richard E., 1981- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A state of mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian political culture in late Antiquity [by Payne, R.E.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: State of mixture [by Payne, R.E.] (ISBN 9780520286191; LCCN 2015003679)

Related Series:

Transformation of the classical heritage; [volume] 56

Subjects:

Christianity and other religions — Zoroastrianism

Christianity and politics — Iran — History — To 1500

Zoroastrianism — Relations — Christianity

Christians — Iran — Social conditions — To 1500

Iran — Civilization — To 640

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

BR128.Z6 P39 2015eb

ISBNs:

9780520961531
0520961536
9780520286191 [Invalid]
0520286197 [Invalid]
0520961536 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

911200767

Other Control Numbers:

EBC2025599 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12480431