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christianity, community-organizing, early-church, leadership, organizational-structure, paganism, pbs, roman-empire
Community organization and religious movements
A nifty little PBS essay on the Early Church points out how crucial Christianity’s down-to-earth organizational structure was to its success in the Roman Empire. The author attributes its success to several things:
The bewildering array of new gods and cults available to Romans could be radically simplified by converting to Christianity.
Conversion, rather than mere […]
