Transformations of religious practices in late antiquity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Variorum,
2013
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| Series: | Variorum collected studies series
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Table of Contents:
- The "conversion" of the empire according to Peter Brown
- Interaction between the preacher and his audience: the case-study of Augustine's preaching on death
- Preaching in a local context: Augustine on the fear of death
- Catechumens and the delay of baptism in the preaching of Augustine
- Augustine and the cult of statues
- The Christian mob and the destruction of pagan statues: the case of North Africa in the age of Augustine
- Augustine and the epistolary rituals of the social and cultural elite of his time: a processual analysis of the relations between bishop and city in late antiquity
- "To live with the heathen, but not die with them": the issue of commensality between Christians and non-Christians in the first five centuries
- The sacred and Christian identity in the age of Augustine
- Deviance theory and orthdoxy: the case of the Pelagian controversy on grace
- A new style of argument in Christian polemic: Augustine and the use of patristic citations
- Dogma populare: popular belief in the controversy between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum
- Quasi funambuli: Cassian and the Pelagian controversy on perfection
- Church and burial in late antiquity (Latin Christianity, third to sixth centureis CE)
- [Koimeterion] and coemeterium: tomb, martyr tomb, necropolis
- Were the Carthaginian areae Christian cemeteries or burial enclosures for Christians?
- The Church of Rome and the development of the catacombs: on the origin of Christian cemeteries
- The burial of the poor in the Roman Empire and its evolution in late antiquity