Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity. By Kim Bowes
It is only comparatively recently that scholars have granted as much importance to material evidence as they have to textual records of late antiquity. Bowes’s study of the phenomenon of private worship in the late Roman empire is a welcome addition to this, as yet, slight corpus. Illustrated throug...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 340-342 |
| Review of: | Private Worship, public values, and religious change in late antiquity (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2008) (Hartney, Aideen)
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| Summary: | It is only comparatively recently that scholars have granted as much importance to material evidence as they have to textual records of late antiquity. Bowes’s study of the phenomenon of private worship in the late Roman empire is a welcome addition to this, as yet, slight corpus. Illustrated throughout with photographs and architectural drawings, her work sets out to demonstrate the role of private or domestic piety in the process of Christianization of the empire., Bowes is keen to argue that Christianization was not a single, homogenous process, by which the population of the later Roman empire simply adopted a new system of faith and corresponding processes of worship. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp189 |