Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan

Rituals in Early Christianity New Perspe

📁 Rituals in Early Christianity New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 164)

✍ Albert Geljon 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 BRILL 🌐 English

<span>Informed by the paradigmatic shift in ritual and liturgical studies, this volume offers analyses of key ritual traditions in early Christianity. The case studies focus on the dynamic formation and transformation of rituals in the context of Greco-Roman religion, Judaism, and Islam.</span>

Paganism and Christianity in Egypt

📁 Paganism and Christianity in Egypt

✍ Philip David Scott-Moncrieff; Norman McLean; L W King; H R Hall 📂 Library 📅 1913 🏛 Cambridge, The University press 🌐 English

Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group

📁 Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities

✍ Edward Jay Watts 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group

📁 Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities

✍ Edward J. Watts (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

<p>This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ranging examination of the ideas and interactions of pagan philosophers, Christian ascetics, and bishops from the fourth to the early seventh century. Edward J. Watts reconstructs a riot that erupted

Riot in Alexandria: tradition and group

📁 Riot in Alexandria: tradition and group dynamics in late antique pagan and Christian communities

✍ Edward Jay Watts 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

<span>This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ranging examination of the ideas and interactions of pagan philosophers, Christian ascetics, and bishops from the fourth to the early seventh century. Edward J. Watts reconstructs a riot that erupt

Pagans and Christians

📁 Pagans and Christians

✍ Robin Lane Fox 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 Penguin Books 🌐 English

From the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's "Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World" gives a fascinating new perspective on an extraordinary era. The transition from pagan to Christian in the ancient Mediterranean world was a p