Only authors named in the text are listed in the index. Those merely cited are included in the bibliography.
Alba, Richard, 51
Alexandria, 77, 85, 97, 131-142, 183, 199
Antony, 183
Athanasius, 183
Athens, 84-85, 102-103, 131-142, 219
Attachments, 16-18, 20, 91-93, 138. See also Networks, social
Aurelius, Marcus, 73, 76, 113-114, 116
Bagnall, Roger S., xiii, 12-13, 68-69, 155-156, 198
Bainbridge, William Sims, 100, 201, 205
Balch, David L., xiii
Barker, Eileen, 40
Birth control, 121-122, 125-126
Boak, Arthur E. R., 116
Bromley, David, xiii
Brown, Peter, 93, 99, 109, 182
Burn, A. R., 189
Caesar, Julius, 115
Carcopino, Jerome, 148-149, 151, 153-154, 157
Carthage, 77, 87, 131-142, 199
Case, Shirley Jackson, 10-11, 165
Celsus, Aulas Cornelius, 119-120
Chandler, Tertius, 131
Charisma, 24
Chuvin, Pierre, 4
Cirta, 98
Cities: cooking and heating in, 151; crime in, 157-158; density of population in, 149-151; earthquakes in, 158-160; epidemics and health in, 155-156, 158-159; ethnic areas and conflicts in, 157-158, 213; fires in, 151; housing in, 151-152; insects and parasites in, 154-155; newcomers to, 156-157; riots in, 159; sanitation and sewers in, 152-153; streets in, 151, 153-154; water in, 152-154
Clement of Alexandria, xiv, 108
Compensators, religious, 36, 39, 168-169, 171-174
Conversion, 13-21, 55-56, 99-100
Conzelmann, Hans, 5
Coulanges, Numa Denis Fustel de, 147
Cultural continuity, 55, 59, 137
Cumont, Franz, 195
Currie, Raymond F., 5
Danielou, Jean, 31
Delphi, 97
Diaspora, 49, 57-68, 70, 138, 214
Diocletian, 10
Dionysius of Alexandria, 74, 77, 81-83, 85
Dionysius of Corinth, 9
Dodds, E. R., 196-197, 200, 207
Domitian, 121
Durkheim, Emile, 205
Elliot, John, xii
Eusebius, xiii, 3, 13, 74, 163, 165, 179
Fertility: Christian, 122-128; Pagan, 115-122
Fox, Robin Lane, 8, 20, 31, 98, 104, 111
Galen, 76, 85-86, 88, 104, 113, 165
Galerius, 10
Garrett, William R., xiii
Glazer, Nathan, 51
God-Fearers, 58, 67-68, 137, 202, 213-214
Grant, Robert M., 6, 9, 31, 181
Growth and growth rates (Christian), 4-13, 56-57, 89-90
Guttentag, Marcia 101-103, 110
Hammond, Mason, 148
Harnack, Adolf, 14, 32, 87, 98-99, 111-112, 132, 134, 141, 193, 209
Hegedus, Tim, 199
Hexham, Irving, 5
Iannaccone, Laurence R., xii, 108, 163, 204-206, 219
Ignatius of Antioch, 32, 113, 180-181, 189
Isaac, Ephraim, 70
Jesus, 18, 44, 55, 86, 184-188
Jews, xi, 43, 49-71. See also Diaspora
Kautsky, Karl, 29
Kosmin, Barry A., 43
Kreissig, Heinz, 31
Lindsay, Jack, 122
Livy, 205
Macedonicus, Quintus, 117
MacMullen, Ramsay, xi, 3, 6, 14, 86, 90, 93-94, 144, 193, 195-197, 199-200, 202, 205, 208, 213
Malherbe, Abraham J., 31
Marcion, Marcion movement, 64-66
Marriage: age at, 105-106; exogamous, 111-115
Marrou, Henri, 31
Martin, David, 100
Martyrs, 46, 110, 113-114, 163-189, 192, 208
May, Gerhard, 64
McNeal, William H., 75-76, 80-81, 88
Measles, 73
Meeks, Wayne, xi, 39, 109-111, 129, 135, 213
Moonies (Unification Church), 15-17, 19, 175, 217-218
Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), 7, 14, 18, 19, 21, 34, 39-40, 43-44, 45, 55, 56, 178, 185, 221
Moynihan, Daniel P., 51
Mumford, Lewis, 131
Networks, social, 20-22, 55-57, 61, 115, 193
Niebuhr, H. Richard, 33
Nock, Arthur Darby, 55, 196, 201
Osiek, Caroline, xii
Pagans, 10, 79-80, 83-94, 195-203, 205-208, 211-215
Paul, 30, 31, 38, 98, 108-109, 111, 113, 135-136, 185-186, 217
Pearson, Birger, 141
Pelikan, Jaroslav, xiv, 161, 209
Perpetua, 214
Persecution. See Martyrs
Pliny the Younger, 108, 113, 208
Pluralism, 193-196, 197-199, 203
Plutarch, 105
Polycarp, 182
Ramsay, W. M., 32
Rational choice theory, 167, 169-184
Rawson, Beryl, 117
Revitalization movements, 78-79, 211-215
Rewards, direct, 35-36, 188-189
Rives, J. B., 199
Robbins, Thomas, 205
Robinson, John A. T., 184
Romanus, 163
Rome: Christian community in, 31, 32, 98; city of, 31, 97, 131-142
Russell, J. C., 5
Segal, Alan, 213
Seneca, 118
Sex (gender): and conversion, 99-101; ratios, 97-99, 101
Sexual behavior, 106-107, 117, 121-123
Sherkat, Darren, xiii
Snyder, Graydon F., 8
Sordi, Marta, 31, 46, 112, 180
Stager, Lawrence E., 118
Stowers, Stanley K., xiii
Strecker, Georg, 64
Tacitus, Cornelius, 12, 31, 118, 179-180
Tcherikover, Victor, 58
Teresa, Mother, 171
Tertullian, 87, 112-113, 119, 189, 198, 207, 215
Theissen, Gerd, 31,
Thurston, Bonnie Bowman, 110
Townsend, Joan B., 5
Valentina, 165
von Herding, L., 6
Wallace, Anthony F. C., 78
Wallis, Roy, 24
Walsh, Michael, 113
Weiner, Eugene and Anita, 183-184
Weiss, Johannes, 70
White, L. Michael, xii, 8, 151, 192, 209