Sacra Privata, Family Duties, and the Dead: Insights from the Fathers and Cultural Anthropology
When discussing boundaries between domestic and public religion, society and family, a look at ancient rites and rituals proves to be illuminating despite the given difficulties in reconstructing non-verbal ritual acts through verbal texts and archeaological remains. Ever since the discipline’s orig...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017
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Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
Year: 2017, Volume: 18/19, Issue: 1, Pages: 171-186 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church fathers
/ Religious practice
/ Publicity
/ Ritual
/ Family life
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CB Christian life; spirituality HC New Testament |
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| Summary: | When discussing boundaries between domestic and public religion, society and family, a look at ancient rites and rituals proves to be illuminating despite the given difficulties in reconstructing non-verbal ritual acts through verbal texts and archeaological remains. Ever since the discipline’s origins in the 18th and 19th century, cultural anthropology has attempted to describe, analyse and systematize the ritual functions of defining and maintaining boundaries between different realms and stages of human life. The essay endeavours to investigate some more and some less successful attempts by the Church Fathers to come to terms with complicated ritual dynamics, and suggests ways to access critically historical plausibilities of claims made by the ancient sources. |
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| ISSN: | 1868-8888 |
| Contains: | In: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/arege-2016-0010 |