2013
DOI: 10.1177/0146107913493564
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Paul's Aegean Network: The Strength of Strong Ties

Abstract: István Czachesz adapts Mark Granovetter's Social Network Analysis (SNA) view, "the strength of weak ties," that new, innovative information spreads through a network, not through one's intimate family and friends ("strong ties"), but through more distant, hardly known acquaintances ("weak ties"); Paul, constantly on the move, did not make many strong ties, but spread his message through weak ties. This article appreciates, but counterbalances, Czachesz's thesis with the SNA theory that strong ties are necessar… Show more

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“…The social network built by Saint Paul along its biblical voyage through the Aegean sea is characterized in Ref. [442], which considers the two layers corresponding to strong and weak ties. While the former (including close friends and family) was usually considered to be essential for spreading risky ideas (thus including recruitment to, and spreading of the new religion), results suggest that Saint Paul mainly achieved his mission through a large network of weak social links.…”
Section: Other Social Interactionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The social network built by Saint Paul along its biblical voyage through the Aegean sea is characterized in Ref. [442], which considers the two layers corresponding to strong and weak ties. While the former (including close friends and family) was usually considered to be essential for spreading risky ideas (thus including recruitment to, and spreading of the new religion), results suggest that Saint Paul mainly achieved his mission through a large network of weak social links.…”
Section: Other Social Interactionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pardus: [63,[419][420][421][422] Netflix: [423,424] Flickr: [66,88,425] Facebook: [68,[426][427][428] Youtube: [429] Other online communities: [54,89,430] Merging multiple communities: [122,123,431,432] Internet [109,110,433] Citation networks DBLP: [31,33,[434][435][436][437][438][439] Other social networks Scottish Community Alliance: [440] Politics: [68,441] Terrorism: [23] Bible: [442] Mobile communication: [443] Technical After this first attempt, White et al proposed an extension of the classical work by Nadel and Fortes [464] to perform a quantitative analysis of multilayer social networks [465]. A simple three-layer structure is considered, where nodes represent biomedical researchers specialized in the neural control of food and water intake; the three layers respectively represent the existence of a bidirectional personal tie, an unidirectional awareness, and the absence of awareness [466].…”
Section: Tablementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The social network built by Saint Paul along its biblical voyage through the Aegean sea is characterized in Ref. [444], which considers the two layers corresponding to strong and weak ties. While the former (including close friends and family) was usually considered to be essential for spreading risky ideas (thus including recruitment to, and spreading of the new religion), results suggest that Saint Paul mainly achieved his mission through a large network of weak social links.…”
Section: Other Social Interactionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Czaches (2011) acknowledges that it is difficult to judge the reliability of these texts with regards to the extent to which they describe the actual practice of Jesus and his followers. Duling (2013), however, argues that characterizing Paul as a homeless itinerant person like Jesus is limited since he was an urban settler and community organizer supporting himself with hard labor. Duling (2013) further claims that the meeting places such as the "craftworker house church," where Paul and his followers could have met suggest that these environments were multi-stratified in which one would expect clustering of different social strata.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Duling (2013), however, argues that characterizing Paul as a homeless itinerant person like Jesus is limited since he was an urban settler and community organizer supporting himself with hard labor. Duling (2013) further claims that the meeting places such as the "craftworker house church," where Paul and his followers could have met suggest that these environments were multi-stratified in which one would expect clustering of different social strata. Thus, it was possible the members of the same social strata developed strong ties, which could have facilitated the diffusion of Christianity making it more successful in the free market of Greco-Roman religions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%