Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-xii

Contributors

pp xiii-xiv

Acknowledgements

pp xv-xvi

1 - Introduction

pp 1-24

Part I - The Imperial Context

pp 25-186

2 - The Gandharan Problem

pp 27-50

3 - Writing the Art, Archaeology and Religion of the Roman Mediterranean

pp 51-80

4 - Mystery Cult and Material Culture in the Graeco-Roman World

pp 81-109

5 - The Viennese Invention of Late Antiquity: Between Politics and Religion in the Forms of Late Roman Art

pp 110-127

6 - The Rise of Byzantine Art and Archaeology in Late Imperial Russia

pp 128-160

7 - Ferdinand Piper’s Monumentale Theologie (1867) and Schleiermacher’s Legacy: The Attempted Foundation of a Protestant Theology of Art

pp 161-186

Part II - After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances

pp 187-290

8 - The Road from Decadence: Agendas and Personal Histories in the Study of Early Islamic Art

pp 189-222

9 - Connecting Art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian Studies

pp 223-259

10 - ‘Hindu’ Art and the Primordial Śiva

pp 260-290

Part III - Post-Colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies

pp 291-433

11 - Jewish Art: Before and After the Jewish State (1948)

pp 293-319

12 - Whose History Is It Anyway? Contests for India’s Past in the Twentieth Century

pp 320-360

13 - Acculturated Natives Who Rebel: Revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist Engagements with Early Islamic Art (1876–1930s)

pp 361-395

14 - Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon Art, Race and Religion

pp 396-433

Bibliography

pp 434-507

Index of Names

pp 508-509

Index of Subjects

pp 510-516