Urban Religion in Late Antiquity.

RGVV (History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)--contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning--and engages them from a critical historical perspective. The series publishes monographs and thematical...

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Main Author: Lätzer-Lasar, Asuman.
Other Authors: Urciuoli, Emiliano Rubens., Raja, Rubina., Rüpke, Jörg.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Intersecting religion and urbanity in late antiquity
  • A tale of no cities
  • The children of Cain
  • Faith and the city in the 4&lt
  • sup&gt
  • th&lt
  • /sup&gt
  • century CE
  • Intellectualizing religion in the cities of the Roman Empire
  • The city of the dead or: the making of a cultural geography
  • A new "topography of devotion"
  • City of prophecies
  • Creating a city of believers: Rabbula of Edessa
  • Sacred spaces and new cities in the Byzantine East
  • Roman baths as locations of religious practice
  • Index.