Episode 2: Competing Altars: Early Christianity and the War Over Ritual Life (2nd–5th centuries CE)
The World Being Contested Walk through a major Roman city in the second century CE and the crowd tells you where the city is alive. People move toward arenas, theaters, processions, public sacrifices, games, and festivals embedded in the rhythms of civic life. These activities don’t belong to a separate cultural category called entertainment. Public…