Rituals in early Christianity : new perspectives on tradition and transformation

Rituals in early Christianity : new perspectives on tradition and transformation / edited by Nienke Vos, Albert C. Geljon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geljon, Albert
Other Authors: Vos, Nienke
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Series:Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements Ser.
Subjects:
Rites and ceremonies > History.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Rites and ceremonies
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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