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Item Details
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HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY RELIGION IN ANTIQUITY
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| By: |
John Bodel (Editor), Saul M. Olyan (Editor) |
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Other digital |
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£72.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1444302973 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781444302974 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
23 March, 2009 |
| Series: |
Ancient World: Comparative Histories |
| Pages: |
344 |
| Description: |
This book aims to advance our understanding of household and family religion in Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults. The volume explores the new recognition that religious expression associated with household, family, and domicile is significant and must be investigated in a serious way. |
| Synopsis: |
The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity.* Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults* Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia* Explores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deities or of spirits associated with the house itself* Examines lifecycle rituals - from pregnancy and birth to maturity, old age, death, and beyond* Looks at religious practices relating to the household both within the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramural tombs and local sanctuaries |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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