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Urban religion in Late Antiquity /

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Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with 'lived religion' in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material a...

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Other Authors: Lätzer-Lasar, Asuman (Editor), Urciuoli, Emiliano Rubens (Editor), Rüpke, Jörg (Contributor), Raja, Rubina, 1975- (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2021]
Series:Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten.
Subjects:
Mediterranean Region > Religion > History > To 1500.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Cities and towns > Religious aspects > History > To 1500.
Table of Contents:
  • Intersecting religion and urbanity in late antiquity / Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke, and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
  • A tale of no cities : searching for city-spaces in Augustine's City of God / Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
  • The children of Cain / Clifford Ando
  • Faith and the city in the 4th century CE / Teresa Morgan
  • Intellectualizing religion in the cities of the Roman Empire / Heidi Wendt
  • The city of the dead or: the making of a cultural geography / Lara Weiss
  • A new "topography of devotion" : Aurelian and solar worship in Rome / Michele Renee Salzman
  • City of prophecies : Constantinople in late antique and medieval sources / Paroma Chatterjee
  • Creating a city of believers: Rabbula of Edessa / Hartmut Leppin
  • Sacred spaces and new cities in the Byzantine East / Michael Blömer
  • Roman baths as locations of religious practice / Dirk Steuernagel.