What Makes a Church Sacred? : Legal and Ritual Perspectives from Late Antiquity
What is the purpose of a church? Who owns a church? Mary K. Farag persuasively demonstrates that three groups in late antiquity were concerned with these questions: Christian leaders, wealthy laypersons, and lawmakers. Conflicting answers usually coexisted, but from time to time they clashed and cau...
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Main Author: | Farag, Mary K. (auth) |
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Format: | Book Chapter |
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University of California Press
2021
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