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