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Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
Contributor(s): Bodel, John (Author)
ISBN: 111825533X     ISBN-13: 9781118255339
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $56.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient - General
Series: Ancient World: Comparative Histories
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.7" W x 9.6" (1.15 lbs) 344 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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Publisher Description:
The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity.
  • Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults
  • Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia
  • Explores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deities or of spirits associated with the house itself
  • Examines lifecycle rituals - from pregnancy and birth to maturity, old age, death, and beyond
  • Looks at religious practices relating to the household both within the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramural tombs and local sanctuaries