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This volume contains the proceedings of the first International
Colloquium of the Research Centre "Polemikos" that was founded in 2016
by Joseph Verheyden (KU Leuven) and Daniela Müller (RU Nijmegen). The
Centre is dedicated to the study of the history of religious polemics.
This first meeting, held 14-16 of March 2018 in Leuven, studied a
commonly known and broadly used way to discredit an adversary by using
labels, in particular the negative label par excellence - that of being
"a pagan".
For practical reasons, the focus was limited to voices and evidence of
Western origin - from the famous adversus Paganos literature to
the controversies on native populations after the discovery of the New
World and the place and role to be given to more "rationalistic"
approaches to the Christian faith in the (early) modern period. The case
studies presented here illustrate that the label can receive many
different meanings. Among these are the characterisation of the others
as strangers or barbarians and the accusation of committing idolatry,
but also all sorts of insinuations or claims of immoral behaviour and
more outlandish ones that associate these "pagan" others with demonic
schemes. The last two contributions have less to do with "fighting" and
more with "imagining" paganism, though these two aspects overlap as is
shown in several of the essays; hence the choice for "Imagining
Paganism" in the general title.
