Private worship, public values, and religious change in late antiquity /Kim Bowes.
Description
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.
xvi, 363 p. :ill., maps ;23 cm.
Book Details
Author
Bowes, Kimberly Diane
Place Published
City
Cambridge ;New York
Date Published
2008
Publication Subjects
Worship--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Call No.
BV6 .B69 2008
ISBN
9780521885935 (hbk.), 0521885930 (hbk.)
LCCN
2007049089
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-342) and index.