The Oxford handbook of early Christian ritual /edited by Risto Uro, Juliette J. Day, Rikard Roitto, and Richard E. DeMaris. 
 Handbook of early Christian ritual  Early Christian ritual 

 - Oxford :  Oxford University Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Oxford handbooks online .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Ritual Theory in the Study of Early Christianity /  Household and family /  Magic /  Communal meals /  Purification /  Prayer /  Music /  Sacrifices and votives /  Pilgrimage and festivals /  Divination /  Initiation /  Mortuary rituals /  Rituals and texts /  Water ritual /  Meal practices /  Rituals of reintegration /  Ritual and healing /  Sacrificial practice and language /  Ritual and religious experience /  Ritual and emerging church hierarchy /  Ritual as action, performance and practice /  Initiation /  Eucharistic practices /  Ritualizing time /  Early Christian prayer /  Ritual and early Christian art /  Hymns and psalmody /  Wedding Rituals and Episcopal Power /  Women's rituals and women's ritualizing /  Fasting as an Ascetic Ritual /  Ritual, identity and emotion /  The cult of saints /  Ritual and orthodoxy /  Ritual and the Christianization of urban space /  Ritualization and ritual invention /  Ritual and embodiment /  Ritual and cooperation /  Ritual and transmission /  Ancient sanctuaries /  Associations, guilds, clubs /  Risto Uro --  Fanny Dolansky --  Istv�an Czachesz --  Richard S. Ascough --  Thomas Kazen --  David E. Aune --  Jade B. Weimer --  Daniel Ullucci --  Laura Feldt --  Martti Nissinen --  Luther H. Martin --  Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme --  Anders Klostergaard Petersen --  Richard E. DeMaris --  Vojtěch Kaše --  Rikard Roitto --  Gerd Theissen --  Christian A. Eberhart --  Colleen Shantz --  Susan E. Hylen --  Barry Stephenson --  Paul F. Bradshaw --  Lizette Larson-Miller --  Juliette J. Day --  L. Edward Phillips --  Robin M. Jensen --  Angela Kim Harkins, Brian P. Dunkle, SJ --  David G. Hunter --  Juliette J. Day --  Richard Finn OP --  Douglas J. Davies --  David L. Eastman --  Pheme Perkins --  Jacob A. Latham --  Barry Stephenson --  Armin W. Geertz, Eva Kundtov�a Klocov�a --  Joseph A. Bulbulia --  Istv�an Czachesz --  Rubina Raja --  John S. Kloppenborg. 
<br/><br/> Generations of New Testament and early Christian scholars have produced detailed analyses of the belief systems of nascent Christian communities, including their ideological and political dimensions, but have by and large ignored ritual as an important element of early Christian religion and as a factor contributing to the rise and the organization of the movement. In recent years, however, scholars of early Christianity have begun to use ritual as an analytical tool for describing and explaining Christian origins and the early history of the movement. Such a development has created a momentum towards producing a more comprehensive volume on the ritual world of early Christianity employing advances made in the field of Ritual Studies. The Handbook will give a manifold account of the ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning of the movement up to the fifth century. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780191810749 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rites and ceremonies--History.<br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV185  / .O946 2018