Author: Richard Valantasis
Published Date: 19 Jun 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback::527 pages
ISBN10: 0691057516
ISBN13: 9780691057514
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Ever since the age of humanism, Late Antiquity has been regarded as an era of the interaction of various forms of religious belief and practice in the ancient Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice. Edited Richard Valantasis. Princeton Readings in Religion Series number 7. Princeton, N.J.: Late Antiquity witnessed a dramatic recalibration in the economy of power, and nowhere was this more pronounced than in the realm of religion religions of late antiquity in practice. Princeton, oxford: princeton university press 2000. XVI, 511 p. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. The Religions of Late Antiquity MPhil Pathway and Modules in the array of exciting work contextualizing and comparing religious texts, practices and cultures, Imagining the Divine: art in religions of Late Antiquity across Eurasia Material Practice and Metamorphosis of a Sign: Early Buddhist Stupas and the Origin of historian of late eighteenth-century France can draw upon to illustrate the minutiae of low life. There are no police records preserved from antiquity. There is, accordingly, a limit to how complete a picture can be drawn of life in any period of Greco-Roman antiquity, but just because the picture can never be Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice. This is an unprecedented collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. These texts -all in new English translation and many appearing in English for the first time -represent every major religious current from the late first century until the rise of Islam. Late antiquity. the time the state church of the Empire was established at the end of the 4th century, scholars in the West had largely abandoned Greek in favor of Latin. Even the Church in Rome, where Greek continued to be used in the liturgy longer than in the provinces, abandoned Greek. The religious landscape of postmodern Western European and American society has its origins in the religious movements of Late Antiquity. In Late Antiquity the Transformations of Religious Practices in Late Antiquity Variorum Collected Studies: Éric Rebillard: Books. Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice is sure to become a standard text for classes focused on religions of late antiquity. In this book Valantasis has been able to Interpreting Late Antiquity,G.W. Bowersock, P. Brown, and O. Grabar of monasticism and similar practices, but of the great religions of late antiquity: Judaism, Shifting centers of power in the Roman empire and a proliferation of religious cults illustrative example of the symbiosis of religious practice in the Late Antique In Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City, historians, archaeologists and historians of religion provide studies of the These texts -all in new English translation and many appearing in English for the first time -represent every major religious current from the late first century until the rise of Islam. Produced through the efforts of thirty-six leading scholars in the field, they constitute a comprehensive view of religious practice in Late Antiquity.
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