Encountering the Sacred

Author: Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0520241916

Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity

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. Download Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Asking how the emerging notion of a sacred geography challenged the leading intellectuals and ecclesiastical authorities, Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony deftly reshapes our understanding of early Christian mentalities by unraveling the process by which a territory of grace became a territory of power.
Examining ancient writers' responses to the rising practice of pilgrimage, Bitton-Ashkelony offers a nuanced reading of their thinking on the merits and the demerits of pilgrimage, reve Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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