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

Includes bibliographies and index.

Ritual Theory in the Study of Early Christianity / Risto Uro -- Household and family / Fanny Dolansky -- Magic / Istv�an Czachesz -- Communal meals / Richard S. Ascough -- Purification / Thomas Kazen -- Prayer / David E. Aune -- Music / Jade B. Weimer -- Sacrifices and votives / Daniel Ullucci -- Pilgrimage and festivals / Laura Feldt -- Divination / Martti Nissinen -- Initiation / Luther H. Martin -- Mortuary rituals / Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme -- Rituals and texts / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Water ritual / Richard E. DeMaris -- Meal practices / Vojtěch Kaše -- Rituals of reintegration / Rikard Roitto -- Ritual and healing / Gerd Theissen -- Sacrificial practice and language / Christian A. Eberhart -- Ritual and religious experience / Colleen Shantz -- Ritual and emerging church hierarchy / Susan E. Hylen -- Ritual as action, performance and practice / Barry Stephenson -- Initiation / Paul F. Bradshaw -- Eucharistic practices / Lizette Larson-Miller -- Ritualizing time / Juliette J. Day -- Early Christian prayer / L. Edward Phillips -- Ritual and early Christian art / Robin M. Jensen -- Hymns and psalmody / Angela Kim Harkins, Brian P. Dunkle, SJ -- Wedding Rituals and Episcopal Power / David G. Hunter -- Women's rituals and women's ritualizing / Juliette J. Day -- Fasting as an Ascetic Ritual / Richard Finn OP -- Ritual, identity and emotion / Douglas J. Davies -- The cult of saints / David L. Eastman -- Ritual and orthodoxy / Pheme Perkins -- Ritual and the Christianization of urban space / Jacob A. Latham -- Ritualization and ritual invention / Barry Stephenson -- Ritual and embodiment / Armin W. Geertz, Eva Kundtov�a Klocov�a -- Ritual and cooperation / Joseph A. Bulbulia -- Ritual and transmission / Istv�an Czachesz -- Ancient sanctuaries / Rubina Raja -- Associations, guilds, clubs / John S. Kloppenborg.

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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