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Autore |
Potthoff Stephen |
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Titolo |
The afterlife in early Christian Carthage : near-death experience, ancestor cult, and the archaeology of paradise / / Stephen E. Potthoff |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-29406-8 |
1-315-64612-9 |
1-317-29407-6 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Christian cemeteries - Tunisia - Carthage (Extinct city) |
Death - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Future life - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600 |
Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 |
Carthage (Extinct city) Church history |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Rebirthing paradise in the sacred space of vision and cemetery -- 2. Ghosts, graveside dining, and dreams of paradise : Mediterranean ancestor cult in the early Christian period -- 3. Mediterranean ancestor cult in Carthage : hungry ghosts and the Roman cemetery as other world -- 4. Dining, divining, and divorcing the dead : the age of Tertullian -- 5. The age of Cyprian : burial clubs and banquets in paradise -- 6. The age of Augustine : burial as sanctos, graveside parties, and the abodes of body and soul after death -- 7. Christian burial ad sanctos at Carthage : pressing on to heaven in the paradisal realm of the cemetery -- 8. Refreshment and reunion in the garden of light : sculpting paradise at the grave. |
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