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Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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Conventional histories of late antique Christianity tell the story
of a public institution - the Christian Church. In this book, Kim
Bowes relates another history, that of the Christian private. Using
textual and archaeological evidence, she examines the Christian
rituals of home and rural estate, which took place outside the
supervision of bishops and their agents. These domestic rituals and
the spaces in which they were performed were rooted in age-old
religious habits. They formed a major, heretofore unrecognised
force in late ancient Christian practice. The religion of home and
family, however, was not easily reconciled with that of the
bishop's Church. Domestic Christian practices presented challenges
to episcopal authority and posed thorny questions about the
relationship between individuals and the Christian collective. As
Bowes suggests, the story of private Christianity reveals a
watershed in changing conceptions of 'public' and 'private', one
whose repercussions echo through contemporary political and
religious debate.
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