The afterlife in early Christian Carthage : near-death experience, ancestor cult, and the archaeology of paradise / / Stephen E. Potthoff

• Autore: Potthoff Stephen
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 276.1101
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Carthage (Extinct city) Church history
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The afterlife in early Christian Carthage
• ISBN: 1-317-29406-8; 1-315-64612-9; 1-317-29407-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154866403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II