- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Religion / Ethics
Full Description
Scholars of religion have long assumed that ritual and belief constitute the fundamental building blocks of religious traditions and that these two components of religion are interrelated and interdependent in significant ways. Generations of New Testament and Early Christian scholars have produced detailed analyses of the belief systems of nascent Christian communities, including their ideological and political dimensions, but have by and large ignored ritual as an important element of early Christian religion and as a factor contributing to the rise and the organization of the movement. In recent years, however, scholars of early Christianity have begun to use ritual as an analytical tool for describing and explaining Christian origins and the early history of the movement. Such a development has created a momentum toward producing a more comprehensive volume on the ritual world of Early Christianity employing advances made in the field of ritual studies. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual gives a manifold account of the ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning of the movement up to the fifth century. The volume introduces relevant theories and approaches; central topics of ritual life in the cultural world of early Christianity; and important Christian ritual themes and practices in emerging Christian groups and factions.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreciations
Notes on Contributors
PART 1 RITUAL THEORY
1: Risto Uro: Introduction: Ritual in the Study of Early Christianity
2: Barry Stephenson: Ritualization and Ritual Invention
3: Barry Stephenson: Ritual as Action, Performance, and Practice
4: Douglas J. Davies: Ritual, Identity, and Emotion
5: Eva Kundtová Klocová and Armin W. Geertz: Ritual and Embodied Cognition
6: Joseph Bulbulia: Ritual and Cooperation
7: István Czachesz: Ritual and Transmission
PART II RITUAL IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
8: Rubina Raja: Ancient Sanctuaries
9: John S. Kloppenborg: Associations, Guilds, Clubs
10: Fanny Dolansky: Household and Family
11: István Czachesz: Magic
12: Richard S. Ascough: Communal Meals
13: Thomas Kazen: Purification
14: David E. Aune: Prayer
15: Jade B. Weimer: Music
16: Daniel Ullucci: Sacrifice and Votives
17: Laura Feldt: Pilgrimage and Festivals
18: Martti Nissinen: Divination
19: Luter H. Martin: Initiation
20: Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme: Mortuary Rituals
21: Anders Klostergaard Petersen: Ritual and Texts
PART III RITUAL IN NASCENT CHRISTIANITY
22: Richard E. DeMaris: Water Ritual
23: Vojtech Kase: Meal Practices
24: Rikard Roitto: Rituals of Reintegration
25: Gerd Theissen: Ritual and Healing
26: Christian A. Eberhart: Sacrificial Practice and Language
27: Colleen Shantz: Ritual and Religious Experience
28: Susan E. Hylen: Ritual and Emerging Church Hierarchy
29: Pheme Perkins: Ritual and Orthodoxy
PART IV RITUAL IN THE ANCIENT CHURCH
30: Paul F. Bradshaw: Christian Initiation
31: Lizette Larson-Miller: Eucharistic Practices
32: Juliette J. Day: Ritualizing Time
33: L. Edwards Phillips: Early Christian Prayer
34: Robin M. Jensen: Ritual and Early Christian Art
35: Angela Kim harkins and Brian P. Dunkle, SJ: Hymns and Psalmody
36: David G. Hunter: Wedding Rituals and Episcopal Power
37: Juliette J. Day: Women's Rituals and Women's Ritualizing
38: Richard Finn, OP: Fasting as an Ascetic Ritual
39: David L. Eastman: The Cult of Saints
40: Jacob A. latham: Ritual and the Christianization of Urban Space
Index
