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Table of Contents

An empire of friends and family : public and private in Roman religions
Public and private in Roman paganism
Public and private as legal categories
The public priesthoods : family and patronage
Consecratio dedicatio : marking public and private religious space
Household cults and their public roles
Public and private in the "unofficial cults"
Superstitio and magia : tensions between public and private
Communal and private in second and third-century Christianity
From home to domus ecclesia : the Christian collective in flux
Christian private ritual
Private and collective ritual in Christian thought
Public and private in pagan and Christian thought
Two Christian capitals : private worship in Rome and Constantinople
Rome
Pre-constantinian realities
The Roman Tituli
Going to church in fourth and early fifth century Rome : the continuation of house-churches
The home as church : domestic piety and the conversion of Rome's elite
Contesting the private in late fourth century Rome
Constantinople
Fourth centuries realities
Constantinople's Christian topography : a city of private churches
Bishops and private churches
Monks and the private
"Christianizing" the countryside : rural estates and private cult
The fourth century countryside
The forms of estate worship : villa churches, mausolea, and "monasteries"
Social qualities of estate-based Christianity
Bishops and rural elites : estate Christianity in local context
Working with bishops : North Africa
What bishop : northern Italy, Britain and the absence of the church hierarchies
Bishops versus elites : Hispania and southwestern Gaul
Ideologies of the private : private cult and the construction of heresy and sanctity
Contesting private worship : heresy and the home
Roman law and Christian law : ideologies of private cult
Homes on the defensive
Promoting private worship : constructing ideals of female sanctity
The private in the vita macrina
The private and female heresy.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
270.2
Library of Congress
BV6 .B69 2008, BV6.B69 2008

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
376

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Open Library
OL16471777M
Internet Archive
privateworshippu00bowe
ISBN 13
9780521885935
LCCN
2007049089
OCLC/WorldCat
183179509
Goodreads
5991954

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