Transformations of Religious Practices in Late Antiquity
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30-600
354-430
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Augustine
Augustine sermons analysis
Augustinus
Aurelius Heiliger 354-430
Author_Eric Rebillard
ca. 30-600
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Christian burial practices
Church history Primitive and early church
Eglise Histoire ca 30-600 (Eglise primitive)
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Fruhchristentum
late antique Christianity
Latin church rituals
of Hippo
orthodoxy formation processes
Pelagian controversy studies
Religionsausubung
Religioser Wandel
Saint
social dynamics of religious change
Theologie
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- ISBN 9781409451587
- Weight: 830g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The eighteen papers collected in this volume - fifteen of which are published in English for the first time - explore the transformations of religious practices between the third and the fifth centuries in the Western part of the Roman Empire. They share an approach that privileges the study of processes and interactions and does not take for granted the categories and roles traditionally ascribed to social actors. A first group of papers focuses on the sermons and letters of Augustine of Hippo. These texts are precious evidence for balancing the clerical perspective that characterizes most of our sources and can thus shed a different light on the problem of Christianization. The second group collects papers that propose to shift attention from the construction of heresies to that of orthodoxy through the case-study of the controversy of Augustine against Pelagius and Julian of Eclanum. A last group present studies that look at the complex relation between burial and religion, with a particular focus on the role played by the church in the organization of the burial of Christians in Late Antiquity.
Éric Rebillard is Professor of Classics and History at Cornell University, USA.
