Early Christian Ritual Life by DeMaris, Richard E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of tables List of contributors Preface List of abbreviations Introduction: With respect to ritual

Endeavoring to define ritual Classifying rituals Context is (almost) everything Closing comments on terminological variety

PART I Interacting with the divine

1 Honoring the divine

Reciprocity and honor Respect and etiquette Public honors The domestic sphere Sacrificial ritual Honors less divine Regional variation The loss of the Jerusalem temple

2 Accessing divine power and status

Introduction The thesis of the case study Ritual theory A brief observation about Pauline studies We are sons – ritual experiments in Rome and Galatia and Paul’s response Background to the issue Conclusion to the case study

3 Accessing divine knowledge

Introduction Catherine Bell on ritualization Accessing divine knowledge in the Greco–Roman world Divination through alternate states of consciousness (ASC) Non-ASC techniques of divination The sign of the cross Conclusion

PART II Group interactions

4 Boundary-crossing in Christian baptism

Baptism as ritual What Christians were not: baptism as negative self-definition What Christians were: baptism as positive self-definition Conclusion

5 Rituals for communal maintenance

Putting the question: how to interpret the distribution of doughnuts? Meals, morality, and boundary maintenance Theorizing boundary maintenance Meals in an early Christian context From doughnuts to dress Conclusion: daily practice and communal boundary maintenance

6 Early Christian funerary ritual

PART III Contesting and creating ritual protocols

7 Ritual negotiation

Introduction State of the question Ritual negotiation Paul and ritual authority Ritual negotiations and 1 Corinthians 8–10 Conclusion

8 Ritual transgression

Situating and defining ritual transgression Early Christian dietary and dining transgressions What motivates ritual transgression? Taboo violation and identity creation Conclusion

9 Ritual modification and innovation

Introduction Defining and describing ritual change Temple and ritual in the Gospel of Luke Contextual ritual modification – prayer Internal ritual modification – meals Conclusion

Conclusion: Steps forward in the study of early christian ritual life

The methodological lay of the land State of the study of early Christian ritual life Prospects for the study of Early Christian ritual life

Index of modern authors Index of subjects Index of ancient sources

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