LEADER 03008nam 22005292 450 001 9910154786203321 005 20161129174501.0 010 $a1-316-94220-1 010 $a1-316-94412-3 010 $a1-316-94444-1 010 $a1-316-94476-X 010 $a1-316-54471-0 010 $a1-316-94604-5 010 $a1-316-94508-1 035 $a(CKB)4340000000021042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4732939 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781316544716 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000021042 100 $a20150730d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRitual sites and religious rivalries in late Roman North Africa /$fShira L. Lander$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Nov 2016). 311 $a1-316-60104-8 311 $a1-107-14694-1 327 $aScaffolding -- Foundational assumptions -- Christian perceptions of communal places -- Internecine Christian contestation -- Christian supersession of traditional Roman temples -- Christian supersession of synagogues -- Ritual spatial control, authority, and identification. 330 $aIn Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred space between practitioners of traditional Roman religion, Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. By analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence, Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space. This regard for ritual sites above other locations rendered the act or mere suggestion of seizing and destroying them powerful weapons in inter-group religious conflicts. Lander demonstrates that the quantity and harshness of discursive and physical attacks on ritual spaces directly correlates to their symbolic value. This heightened valuation reached such a level that rivals were willing to violate conventional Roman norms of property rights to display spatial control. Moreover, Roman Imperial policy eventually appropriated spatial triumphalism as a strategy for negotiating religious conflicts, giving rise to a new form of spatial colonialism that was explicitly religious. 606 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600 606 $aChristian shrines$zAfrica, North 606 $aRites and ceremonies$zAfrica, North 607 $aAfrica, North$xChurch history 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aChristian shrines 615 0$aRites and ceremonies 676 $a276.1/02 700 $aLander$b Shira L.$01075284 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154786203321 996 $aRitual sites and religious rivalries in late Roman North Africa$92584447 997 $aUNINA