Overall, this book is a credit to Kahlos's training and expertise. Her arrangement of the sources alongside compelling close readings of well-trodden texts compels the reader to carefully consider the varied and diverse religious investments, modes of othering, and discursive power plays actively at work in the late ancient world. Kahlos is a wonderfully clear writer and a helpful exegete. This monograph thus comes highly recommended for scholars interested in a refreshing and organized study on religious conflict in the late ancient Roman Empire.
Jennifer Barry, Journal of Ancient Christianity
Kahlos offers a valuable survey of trends in recent historical scholarship that should force serious reflection on the terms and categories employed in the study of late antique religion.
Brian Dunkle, Church History Reviews
Kahlos offers a multifaceted gem. Current scholarship and methods, standing historiographical problems, and refractory sources, assembled in her argument, are all mutually illumined.
Review of Biblical Literature
"Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity is a welcome addition to the scholarship on late antique Christianity. This work laudably zeros in on many of the bigger issues at play in the ongoing debates concerning 'Christianisation' and boils them down into concise, informed discussions. This monograph will therefore be particularly useful for the purposes of university-level education, where many chapters would be ideal for undergraduate reading.
Michael Wuk, Bryn Mawr Classical Review