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 cultsReconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and PhilistiaExplores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deities or of spirits associated with the house itselfExamines lifecycle rituals – from pregnancy and birth to maturity, old age, death, and beyondLooks at religious practices relating to the household both within the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramural tombs and local sanctuaries
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Subject Area: Religion, History
Publication Name: Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
Publisher: Blackwell
Item Length: 10 in
Subject: Ancient / General, Comparative Religion, Christian Life / Family
Publication Year: 2008
Series: Ancient World: Comparative Histories Ser.
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.9 in
Author: John Bodel & Saul M. Olyan, eds.
Country/Region of Manufacture: Singapore
Item Weight: 27.3 Oz
Item Width: 7.1 in
Number of Pages: 346 Pages
