Encountering the sacred [[electronic resource] ] : the debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity / / Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
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Bitton-Ashkelony Bruria
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| Titolo: |
Encountering the sacred [[electronic resource] ] : the debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity / / Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 263/.0425694/09015 |
| Soggetto topico: | Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - Palestine - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600 |
| Palestine in Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Palestine In Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600 |
| Soggetto non controllato: | ancient world |
| antiquity | |
| aristocracy | |
| augustine | |
| bible | |
| christian pilgrims | |
| christian world | |
| christianity | |
| class | |
| cloister | |
| early church | |
| elite religion | |
| folk religion | |
| grace | |
| gregory of nyssa | |
| holiness | |
| holy land | |
| holy men | |
| holy sites | |
| holy space | |
| jerome | |
| jerusalem | |
| landscape | |
| monasteries | |
| monasticism | |
| monks | |
| monuments | |
| nonfiction | |
| nuns | |
| palestine | |
| pilgrimage | |
| pilgrims | |
| popular religion | |
| relics | |
| religion | |
| religious devotion | |
| religious practices | |
| sacred geography | |
| sacred space | |
| saints | |
| theology | |
| tombs | |
| travel | |
| worship | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Basil of Caesarea's and Gregory of Nyssa's Attitudes toward Pilgrimage -- 2 Jerome's Position on Pilgrimage -- 3 Augustine on Holy Space -- 4 Pilgrimage in Monastic Culture -- 5 Local versus Central Pilgrimage -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Places -- Index of Biblical Citations |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Encountering the sacred |
| ISBN: | 1-282-35752-2 |
| 0-520-93112-2 | |
| 9786612357527 | |
| 1-59875-925-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783668703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Transformation of the classical heritage ; ; 38.