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

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Main Author: Bowes, Kimberly Diane, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Worship > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Table of 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.

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