1. General introduction Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Christian R. Raschle; I. Methodology: 2. Sacred prefigurations of violence: Religious communities in situations of conflict Hans G. Kippenberg; 3. Priestesses, pogroms and persecutions: Religious violence in antiquity in a diachronic perspective Jan N. Bremmer; II. Religious Violence in The Graeco-Roman world: 4. Ancient Greek binding spells and (political) violence Esther Eidinow; 5. The expulsion of Isis worshippers and astrologers from Rome in the late republic and early empire Christian R. Raschle; 6. Religious violence? two massacres on a Sabbath in 66 CE: Jerusalem and Caesarea Steve Mason; 7. Religion, violence and the diasporic experience: The Jewish diaspora in Flavian Rome and Puteoli Andreas Bendlin; 8. Animal sacrifice and the Roman persecution of Christians (Second-Third Centuries) James B. Rives; 9. The great persecution and imperial ideology: Patterns of communication on Tetrarchic Coinage Erika Manders; 10. The violent legacy of constantine's Militant Piety Elizabeth Depalma Digeser; III: Religious violence in late antiquity: 11. Religious violence in late antiquity: Current approaches, trends and issues Wendy Mayer; 12. Coercion in late antiquity: A brief intellectual history Peter Van Nuffelen; 13. Crowd Behaviour and the Destruction of the Serapeum at Alexandria in 391/392 CE Jitse H.F. Dijkstra; 14. Violence and Monks: From a Mystical Concept to an Intolerant Practice (Fourth-Fifth Centuries) Fabrizio Vecoli; 15. The discipline of domination: Asceticism, violence and monastic curses in Theodoret's Historia Religiosa Chris L. De Wet; 16. Suffering saints: Shaping narratives of violence after chalcedon Christine Shepardson; 17. Fighting for Chalcedon: Vitalian's rebellion against Anastasius Hugh Elton; 18. The Emperor, the people and urban violence in the fifth and sixth centuries Geoffrey Greatrex.