Handbook of Early Christianity Social Science Approaches Hardcover - 2002

Anthony J. Blasi holds a B.A. in history from St. Edward's University in Texas, an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in biblical studies from the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto, an S.T.L. from Regis College in Toronto, and a conjoint Th.D. from Regis College and the University of Toronto. He is a professor of sociology at Tennessee State University in Nashville. His books include A Phenomenological Transformation of the Social Scientific Study of Religion (1985), Moral Conflict and Christian Religion (1988), Early Christianity as a Social Movement (1989), Making Charisma: The Social Construction of Paul's Public Image (1991), A Sociology of Johannine Christianity (1996), and Organized Religion and Seniors' Mental Health (1999). He is past president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. Jean Duhaime earned a B.A. from the Sminaire de Chicoutimi; a Bachelor's in Secondary-level Religious Education from the Universit du Qubec Chicoutimi; a Licentiate in religious studies, an M.A. in theology-biblical studies, and an M.Sc in sociology from the Universit de Montral; and a Diplme from the cole Biblique et Archologique Franaise de Jrusalem. Duhaime is professeur titulaire [full professor] d'interprtation de la Bible at the Facult de Thologie at the Universit de Montral. His books include Entendre la voix du Dieu vivant (coeditor, 1994), Loi et autonomie dans la Bible et la tradition chrtienne (coeditor, 1994), L'adhsion la conscience de Krishna aux tats-Unis vers 1970 (1996). His works have also appeared in the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Revue de Qumr, Revue Scriptura, Religiologiques, and glise et Thologie. Paul-Andr Turcotte holds a B.A., M.A., and Lic. from the Universit de Montral; a B. Pd. from the Universit Laval; a Ph.D. in social sciences from the Ecole des Hautes tudes in Sciences Sociales in Par