Family Rural Churches in Late Antique Palestine and the Competition in the Field of Religious Goods': A Socio-Historical View
An intriguing phenomenon of late antique Palestine is the abundance of rural churches located outside village boundaries yet obviously in close contact with them, having been constructed by wealthy local patrons. What led to the establishment of such churches and how did they differ from similar bui...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2018, Volume: 69, Issue: 4, Pages: 709-727 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Palestine
/ Late Antiquity
/ Rural area
/ Family
/ Church building
/ History 284-610
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| IxTheo Classification: | HH Archaeology KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa |
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| Summary: | An intriguing phenomenon of late antique Palestine is the abundance of rural churches located outside village boundaries yet obviously in close contact with them, having been constructed by wealthy local patrons. What led to the establishment of such churches and how did they differ from similar building initiatives within the village boundaries? In answering these questions, this article takes a sociological stance, using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of fields' (champs') to suggest that such construction was the product of symbolic and economic competition in the field of religious goods' between the rural lay' elite and the provincial ecclesiastical hierarchy. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046918000015 |