Religions of late antiquity in practice /  [print] 
Richard Valantasis, editor. 
 - Princeton, New Jersey :  Princeton University Press,  (c)2000. 
 - xvi, 511 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Princeton readings in religions .
 - Princeton readings in religions. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Inventing the Individual : Biography  --  The First Sahidic Life of Pachomius  Philostratus of Athens, Life of Apollonius of Tyana  Porphyry, On the Life of Plotinus and the Order of His Books  Refashioning the Person : Asceticism  --  Evagrius Ponticus on Prayer and Anger  Pseudo-Athanasius, Discourse on Salvation to a Virgin  Basil of Caesarea, The "Prooemium" of the Regulaefusius tractatae  Sermons of Columbanus  Manichaean Asceticism  Founding Religious Movements : Organizations  --  Talmudic Texts and Jewish Social Life  Julian "the Apostate," Against the Galileans  A Thriving Native Cult in the Fifth Century and Its Demise under Coptic Monks  The Cologne Mani Codex  Tales of Holy Fools  Locating Religion in Society : Community  --  Vision for the City : Nisibis in Ephrem's Hymns on Nicomedia  Acts of Thomas : Scene One  An Anonymous Letter to a Woman Named Susanna  A Plea to a Local God for a Husband's Attentions  Bishop Avitus of Vienne to His Excellency Ansmundus  Chrysostom's Catecheses : A Hermeneutic of Social Institutions  John Chrysostom, Sermons on City Life  Regulating Religious Expression : Law  --  Laws on Religion from the Theodosian and Justinianic Codes  The Acts of the Council of Aquileia (381 C.E.)  Canons of the Council in Trullo (692 C.E.)  Creating Religious Ceremonial : Ritual  --  The Mithras Liturgy and Sepher Ha/Razim  Manichaean Ritual  The Seal of the Merkavah  Anonymous Spanish Correspondence or the Letter of the "She/ass"  Amuletic Invocations of Christ for Health and Fortune  Singing Divine Praises : Hymnody  --  The Hymns of Ambrose  Hymns to Mary, the Mother of God, the Theotokos  Manichaean Hymnody  An Isis Aretalogy from Kyme in Asia Minor, First Century B.C.E.  Sacrificing Self to God : Martyrology  --  The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity  The Martyrs of Lyons  The Martyrdom of Habbib the Deacon  4 Maccabees  Enlivening Thought : Philosophy and Theology  --  Gregory Nazianzen, Homily on the Nativity of Christ  Texts on Iconoclasm : John of Damascus and the Council of Hiereia  Asterius of Amasea Ekphrasis on the Holy Martyr Euphernia  Christian Oracle Shrines  Popular Religious Practices in Fifth-Century Egypt  The Zenith and Destruction of a Native Egyptian Oracle in 359 C.E.  Manichaean Theology  lamblichus, de Mysteriis, Book 1, The de Mysteriis  Richard Valantasis  James E. Goehring  Megan H. Williams  Richard Valantasis  Columba Stewart 65  --  Teresa M. Shaw  Lawrence J. Altepeter  Arthur G. Holder  Jason David BeDuhn  Daniel Boyarin  Elizabeth Geraldine Burr  David Frankfurter  Ellen Bradshaw Aitken  Derek Krueger  David Bundy  David G. Hunter  Maureen A. Tilley  David Frankfurter  Maureen A. Tilley  Arthur B. Shippee  Blake Leyerle  Matthew C. Mirow and Kathleen A. Kelley  Kenneth B. Steinhauser  James C. Skedros  Kimberly B. Stratton  Jason David BeDuhn  Michael D. Swartz  Virginia Burrus and Tracy Keefer  David Frankfurter  Carl P. E. Springer  Vasiliki Limberis  Jason David BeDuhn  Gail Corrington Streete  Maureen A. Tilley  Frederick W. Weidmann  Robert Doran  Clayton N. Jefford  Nonna Verna Harrison  David Vila  Elizabeth A. Castelli  David Frankfurter  David Frankfurter  David Frankfurter  Jason David BeDuhn  Peter T. Struck 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99049325 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religions--History.<br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL690.V136.R455 2000