Housing the chosen: the architectural context of mystery groups and religious associations in the ancient world
The aim of this book is to show how architecture can illuminate the functions of religious assemblies of various kinds in ancient society. The architecture of ancient religious spaces has the potential to offer a deeper understanding of the religious groups who used the spaces and the activities the...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout
Brepols
2014
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Contextualizing the sacred (2)
Year: 2014 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Elizabeth Frood; Rubina Raja (Hrsg.), Redefining the sacred. Religious architecture and text in the Near East and Egypt, 1000 bc-ad 300 / Inge Nielsen, Housing the chosen. The architectural context of mystery groups and religious associations in the ancient world] (2017) (Kaizer, Ted)
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| Series/Journal: | Contextualizing the sacred
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Classical antiquity
/ Mysteries
/ Religious organization
/ Sacral building
/ History
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