"Severe Initiation", Monastic Personas, and Communal Membership in the Late-Antique Mediterranean
This article examines the use of "severe initiation" rituals—that is, difficult and degrading entrance rites—in communal monasticism in the fourth- to seventh-century Mediterranean. Imposed soon after a new recruit’s arrival at a monastery, monastic sources pitch "severe initiation&qu...
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2025
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Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
Année: 2025, Volume: 29, Numéro: 2, Pages: 294-329 |
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Ceremonies
B Humiliation B Monasticism B Authority B Initiation B Schools B Communal groups |
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