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Book Review: Evi Voulgaraki-Pissina, Persuasion and Coercion. Babylas versus Apollo: An example of religious conflict in Late Antiquity

Dr Dionysios Skliris
DOI: 10.57577/2-23A21
Salt: Crossroads of Religion and Culture: 2 (2024): 248-250
Keywords: Orthodox Theology, Cross-Cultural Theology, Late Antiquity, Interfaith Dialogue, Faith and Power, Political Theology, Antiquity and Christianity, Book Review
Abstract:

Εύη Βουλγαράκη-Πισίνα
Πειθώ και Επιβολή. Βαβύλας εναντίον Απόλλωνα: Ένα παράδειγμα θρησκευτικής σύγκρουσης κατά την Ύστερη Αρχαιότητα
Athens: Μαΐστρος, 2022
276 pages, with bibliography

[Evi Voulgaraki-Pissina
Persuasion and Coercion. Babylas versus Apollo: An example of religious conflict in Late Antiquity
Athens: Maistros, 2022]

Review by Dr Dionysios Skliris

The book examines Late Antiquity as a period of transition in which a great variety of cultures, religions and attitudes could interact with one another, coercion and persuasion being two alternative modes of coexistence in the context of the Greco-Roman ecumene. The toolkit of the book is drawn from the disciplines of Religious Studies and Missiology with an emphasis on interreligious and interconfessional dialogue.

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