The eighteen papers collected in this volume - fifteen of which are
published in English for the first time - explore the
transformations of religious practices between the third and the
fifth centuries in the Western part of the Roman Empire. They share
an approach that privileges the study of processes and interactions
and does not take for granted the categories and roles
traditionally ascribed to social actors. A first group of papers
focuses on the sermons and letters of Augustine of Hippo. These
texts are precious evidence for balancing the clerical perspective
that characterizes most of our sources and can thus shed a
different light on the problem of Christianization. The second
group collects papers that propose to shift attention from the
construction of heresies to that of orthodoxy through the
case-study of the controversy of Augustine against Pelagius and
Julian of Eclanum. A last group present studies that look at the
complex relation between burial and religion, with a particular
focus on the role played by the church in the organization of the
burial of Christians in Late Antiquity.
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