Religious Competition in Late Antiquity

Call For Papers: For the 2022 Annual Meeting, the Religious Competition in Late Antiquity program unit will host four sessions: 1. Philanthropy, conversion, and materiality: The stories of and sites connected with various families (e.g., Adiabene dynasty, 1st century CE) were ripe loci for religious competition in late antiquity. This session of invited papers will address the larger themes of conversion, materiality, patronage, philanthropy, and the interpretation and reception of figures in late antiquity. 2. The second session will be an invited panel to review Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos’ Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital (2020). 3. Open Call: We invite proposals on competitive interactions between different social and religious groups in the ancient Mediterranean basin and late antique southwest Asia, and/or how this competition reshaped cultural and religious landscapes. 4. An exploration of Elizabeth A. Clark’s scholarly legacy, co-hosted by The Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism unit: We invite papers showcasing productive engagement with an aspect of Clark’s research, highlighting future trajectories emerging from her expansive oeuvre. We particularly encourage contributions from scholars who have not been explicitly mentored by Clark, including graduate students and early career professionals.

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