New article on the associations

Due to my interest in the phenomena of the Greco-Roman clubs and associations, a note here on a new article recently published and now made available on the Internet:Philip A. Harland (Concordia University, Montreal),
'Spheres of Contention, Claims of Pre-eminence:Rivalries Among Associations in Sardis and Smyrna.'
Originally published in Richard S. Ascough, ed., Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, vol. 14. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005, pp. 53-63, 259-262. Reprinted by permission of the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion and the ESCJ series editor, and with the approval of the editor and publisher.