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

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Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
376
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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

‎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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