Reading early Christian texts as contributions to urban resilience

Reading early Christian texts as contributions to urban resilience

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Cities are strange places, maximizing density and attachment to place on the one hand and using these very conditions as a basis for wide-ranging movements and connectivity in the settlement tiers of their urban landscape as much as in external flows for often increasing distances on the other.Hospitable to such urban conditions, and profiting from them, are religious practices and imaginations.Against this background my chapter will inquire into the use of religion for challenging and strengthening urban resilience; that is, the ability to cope with threats and ranchy doodle disaster by staying in place.The setting is Rome in the second quarter of the second century, when the Imperium Romanum had reached its maximum extent and imperialism was waning.How did Hebraei shades eq 7gb butterscotch and Judaei, and people among them, or connected to them, who must have been aware of the crushing of the Bar Kochba rebellion and the permanent devastation of Jerusalem as a religious centre, react to these events? To gain insight into this situation, the article examines text production in the form of gospels and letter-collections in the city of Rome itself (1 Clem, Jac, Gospels).

Through the lens of resilience, I will show that what has been interpreted as an internal discourse among religious groups and individuals, or a general anthropological discourse, in fact deals specifically with urban problems.