Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Kim Bowes is an associate professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania and has also taught at Cornell University. She has published on subjects ranging from Christian archaeology and domestic architecture to settlement dynamics and the late Roman economy, and she has excavated Roman and late Roman sites around the Mediterranean. Klappentext In this book, Kim Bowes examines the late antique Christian rituals of the home and rural estate. Zusammenfassung Conventional histories of late antique Christianity tell the story of a public institution – the Christian Church. Kim Bowes relates another history, that of the Christian private. She examines the Christian rituals of home and rural estate, which took place outside the supervision of bishops and their agents. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. An empire of friends and family: public and private in Roman religions; 2. Two Christian capitals: private worship in Rome and Constantinople; 3. 'Christianizing' the countryside: rural estates and private cult; 4. Ideologies of the private: private cult and the construction of heresy and sanctity.

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• Authors: Kim Bowes, Kim (Assistant Professor Bowes, Kimberley Bowes, Kimberly Diane Bowes, Bowes Kim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2008
• EAN: 9780521885935
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88593-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Christianity, Christian life & practice, History of Religion, Church history, Christian life and practice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory