Urban religion in late antiquity /

Urban religion in late antiquity / edited by Asuman Lätzer-Lasar and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli ; in collaboration with Jorg Rupke and Rubina Raja. - Berlin : Boston : Walter de Gruyter, c2021. - vi, 266 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. - Religionsgeschichtliche versuche und vorarbeiten, 76 09392580 ; .

Table of Contents --
Intersecting religion and urbanity in late antiquity --
A tale of no cities --
The children of Cain --
Faith and the city in the 4th century CE --
Intellectualizing religion in the cities of the Roman Empire --
The city of the dead or: the making of a cultural geography --
A new "topography of devotion" --
City of prophecies --
Creating a city of believers: Rabbula of Edessa --
Sacred spaces and new cities in the Byzantine East --
Roman baths as locations of religious practice --
Index

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Mediterranean Region--Religion--History--To 1500.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Cities and towns, Ancient--Mediterranean Region--Religious aspects.

BR116 / .U73 2021