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Encountering the sacred the debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity  Cover Image E-book E-book

Encountering the sacred the debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity

Summary: This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity--the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world--by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time.

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  • ISBN: 9780520931121 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0520931122 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 1423745450 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9781423745457 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (1 v.)
  • Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity; 1. Basil of Caesarea's and Gregory of Nyssa's Attitudes Toward Pilgrimage; 2. Jerome's Position on Pilgrimage: Vacillating Between Support and Reservations; 3. Augustine on Holy Space; 4. Pilgrimage in Monastic Culture; 5. Local Versus Central Pilgrimage; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Places; Index of Biblical Citations.
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Description based on print version record.
Subject: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Palestine -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Palestine in Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600

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