Rituals in early Christianity: new perspectives on tradition and transformation
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- New Perspectives on Early Christian Rituals: An Introduction (Vos) -- Chapter 1. A Paradigm Shift in the Study of Early Christian Rituals: Methodological Perspectives (Rouwhorst) -- Chapter 2. The Origins and Transforma...
| Résumé: | Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- New Perspectives on Early Christian Rituals: An Introduction (Vos) -- Chapter 1. A Paradigm Shift in the Study of Early Christian Rituals: Methodological Perspectives (Rouwhorst) -- Chapter 2. The Origins and Transformations of Early Christian Feasts (Rouwhorst) -- Chapter 3. Is the Instruction to Greet One Another with a Holy Kiss a Pauline Transformation? (Voogd) -- Chapter 4. Eucharist and Agapê in the Later Second Century: The Case of the Older Apocryphal Acts and the Pagan Novel (Bremmer) -- Chapter 5. The Terminology of Mystery Cults in Cyril of Alexandria (van Loon) -- Chapter 6. Augustine's Reassessment of the Commemoration Meal: Quod quidem a christianis melioribus non fit (Rose) -- Chapter 7. Ideas of the Afterlife in Christian Grave Inscriptions and Their Context in Contemporaneous Christian Sepulchral Culture in Rome (Dresken-Weiland) -- Chapter 8. Clothes Make the Magistrate: The Birth of Ecclesiastical Dress (Innemée) -- Chapter 9. The Emergence of the Gallic Rogations in a Cognitive Perspective (van Waarden) -- Chapter 10. 'Father, Give Me a Word': Transforming Traditions and Spiritual Direction in Early Christian Monasticism (Vos) -- Chapter 11. Tradition and Innovation: Writing Magic in Christian Egypt (van der Vliet) -- Chapter 12. 'I Will Wash My Hands in Innocence -- so I Will Go around Your Altar' (Ps 26:6): The Washing of Hands in Rabbinic Judaism (Mock) -- Chapter 13. From Justinian I to Mehmed II: Transformation and Continuity of Rituals and Liturgical Disposition in Hagia Sophia (Verhoeven) -- New Perspectives on Early Christian Rituals: Reflections and Connections (Vos) -- Indices. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (375 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-44172-9 |
