Encountering the sacred [[electronic resource] ] : the debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity / / Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony

• Autore: Bitton-Ashkelony Bruria
• 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
• Serie: Transformation of the classical heritage ; ; 38.