The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity

Guy G. Stroumsa*

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Roman Empire in Context
Subtitle of host publicationHistorical and Comparative Perspectives
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages134-147
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9780470655573
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Mar 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Christian anthropology, built on conceptions - explicit and implicit
  • Christianization of the empire - subtle transformation of educational system
  • Civic religion to communitarian religion - end of sacrifices, central, public religious practice, in late antiquity, crisis in conception of ritual purity
  • End of sacrifice - religious mutations of late antiquity
  • Major political, cultural, and social changes - affecting all aspects of life in the near east, around the mediterranean under the roman empire
  • New care of the self, assessing mutations of religion - in late antiquity
  • Puzzling parallelism, in redaction and canonization process - of the mishna and the new testament
  • Religious world of late antiquity-distinguishing different Idealtypen of religious virtuosi
  • Rise of scriptures, backbone of religious movements - transforming attitudes toward religious stories or myths
  • Roman empire, first centuries - witnessing what is probably the most radical revolution, in history of the book until gutenberg

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