Transformations of Religious Practices in Late Antiquity

Collection of previously published articles of Éric Rebillard, several of them translated here into English. Main chapters : Pastoral Care and Conversion in the Age of Augustine - The Construction of Orthodoxy and the Pelagian Controversy - The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity

Bibliographic Details
Author:Éric Rebillard
Published: Ashgate, Farnham, 2013
Series:Variorum Collected Studies Series
Volume:1028
Language:English
Total Pages:xii-346 p.
ISBN:978 1 4094 5158 7
Format:Book
Child Work(s): The 'conversion' of the Empire according to Peter Brown
Preaching in a local context
Catechumens and the delay of baptism in the preaching of Augustine
Augustine and the cult of statues
The Christian mob and the destruction of pagan statues
Augustine and the epistolary rituals of the social and cultural elite of his time
'To live with the heathen, but not die with them' : the issue of commensality between Christians and non-Christians in the first five centuries
The sacred and Christian identity in the age of Augustine
Deviance theory and orthodoxy : the case of the Pelagian controversy on grace
Quasi funambuli : Cassian and the Pelagian controversy on perfection
Church and burial in late antiquity (Latin Christianity, third to sixth centuries CE)
KOIMHTHRION and COEMETERIUM : Tomb, Martyr Tomb, Necropolis
Were the Carthaginian areae Christian cemetries or burial enclosures for Christians?
The Church of Rome and the development of the catacombs : on the origin of Christian cemetries
The Burial of the Poor in the Roman Empire and its Evolution in Late Antiquity
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Summary:Collection of previously published articles of Éric Rebillard, several of them translated here into English. Main chapters : Pastoral Care and Conversion in the Age of Augustine - The Construction of Orthodoxy and the Pelagian Controversy - The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity