Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar's Empire

"Boin offers a highly original approach to the social and religious anxieties that seized Jesus's followers in the years after his death." -Reza Azlan, #1 New York Times-bestselling author

The supposed collapse of Roman civilization is still lamented more than 1,500 years later-and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion, Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that toppled the empire. The "intolerant zeal" of Christians, wrote...