Private worship, public values, and religious change in late antiquity / Kim Bowes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowes, Kimberly Diane, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Worship--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Worship.

History.

Worship--Early church.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Physical Description:

xvi, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Contents:

An empire of friends and family : public and private in Roman religions

Public and private in Roman paganism

Public and private as legal categories

The public priesthoods : family and patronage

Consecratio dedicatio : marking public and private religious space

Household cults and their public roles

Public and private in the "unofficial cults"

Superstitio and magia : tensions between public and private

Communal and private in second and third-century Christianity

From home to domus ecclesia : the Christian collective in flux

Christian private ritual

Private and collective ritual in Christian thought

Public and private in pagan and Christian thought

Two Christian capitals : private worship in Rome and Constantinople

Rome

Pre-constantinian realities

The Roman Tituli

Going to church in fourth and early fifth century Rome : the continuation of house-churches

The home as church : domestic piety and the conversion of Rome's elite

Contesting the private in late fourth century Rome

Constantinople

Fourth centuries realities

Constantinople's Christian topography : a city of private churches

Bishops and private churches

Monks and the private

"Christianizing" the countryside : rural estates and private cult

The fourth century countryside

The forms of estate worship : villa churches, mausolea, and "monasteries"

Social qualities of estate-based Christianity

Bishops and rural elites : estate Christianity in local context

Working with bishops : North Africa

What bishop : northern Italy, Britain and the absence of the church hierarchies

Bishops versus elites : Hispania and southwestern Gaul

Ideologies of the private : private cult and the construction of heresy and sanctity

Contesting private worship : heresy and the home

Roman law and Christian law : ideologies of private cult

Homes on the defensive

Promoting private worship : constructing ideals of female sanctity

The private in the vita macrina

The private and female heresy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-342) and index.

ISBN:

9780521885935

0521885930

OCLC:

183179509

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