Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity

Seeing the Gods
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-925079-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 532 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 874 g

This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in understanding ancient religion and its topographies but also as vitally ancestral to later Christian practice.

Zielgruppe

Classicists, historians of religion, theologians, anthropologists, geographers, archaeologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elsner, Jas'

Rutherford, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Kult, Riten, Feiertage, Zeremonien, Gebete
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Jas' Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Ian Rutherford is Professor of Greek, University of Reading.