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Bitton-Ashkelony Bruria
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Titolo: |
Encountering the sacred : the debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity / / Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
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Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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 | |
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.: | 9910815949903321 |
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