E-bok, Engelska, 2012
Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
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Beskrivning
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
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2012-02-15
- Språk: Engelska
- Filformat: EPUB
- Kopieringsskydd: LCP
- ISBN: 9781118293522
- Förlag: Wiley
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