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Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity, Part II: The Rise of Christianity and the Invention and Eclipse of ‘Paganism’

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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Exploring the separation of Christianity from Second Temple Judaism, the distinctions between Christians and pagans, the relationship between Roman state power and Christianity, the rebranding of traditional Mediterranean religious practices as paganism, and the transformation of the polytheistic Roman state into the first Christian Empire.

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