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Encountering the Sacred
- The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity
Engelsk Hardback
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Encountering the Sacred
- The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity
Engelsk Hardback

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This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity--the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world--by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time. Asking how the emerging notion of a sacred geography challenged the leading intellectuals and ecclesiastical authorities, Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony deftly reshapes our understanding of early Christian mentalities by unraveling the process by which a territory of grace became a territory of power. Examining ancient writers' responses to the rising practice of pilgrimage, Bitton-Ashkelony offers a nuanced reading of their thinking on the merits and the demerits of pilgrimage, revealing theological and ecclesiastical motivations that have been overlooked, and questioning the long-held assumption of scholars that pilgrimage was only a popular, not an elite, religious practice. In addition to Greek and Latin sources, she includes Syriac material, which allows her to build a rich picture of the emerging theology of landscape that took shape over the fourth to sixth centuries.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
270
ISBN-13:
9780520241916
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520241916
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Udg. Dato:
30 dec 2005
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
30 dec 2005
Forfatter(e):
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