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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

Household and Family Religion in Antiquity

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Hardback by John Bodel , Saul M. Olyan

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 16/05/2008
    ISBN13: 9781405175791, 978-1405175791
    ISBN10: 1405175796

    Number of Pages: 346

    Non Fiction , History

    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

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