The care of the dead in late antiquity /
In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of pri...
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| Uniform title: | Religion et sépulture. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English French |
| Language notes: | In English. |
| Imprint: | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009. |
| Series: | Cornell studies in classical philology ;
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- The problem of the origins : Christian burial in Rome and Carthage
- Burial and religious identity : religious groups and collective burial
- Voluntary associations and collective burial : the church, Christians, and the Collegia
- Violation of tombs and impiety : funerary practices and religious beliefs
- Christian piety and burial duty : from the duty to bury the dead to the organization of burial for the poor
- Christian funerals and funerals of Christians : the church and the death ritual in late antiquity
- The church, Christians, and the dead : commemoration of the dead in late antiquity.