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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Part I Ritual Theory
1. Introduction: Ritual in the Study of Early Christianity
2. Ritualization and Ritual Invention
3. Ritual as Action, Performance, and Practice
4. Ritual, Identity, and Emotion
5. Ritual and Embodied Cognition
6. Ritual and Cooperation
7. Ritual and Transmission
Part II Ritual in the Ancient Mediterranean World
8. Ancient Sanctuaries
9. Associations, Guilds, Clubs
10. Household and Family
11. Magic
12. Communal Meals
13. Purification
14. Prayer
15. Music
16. Sacrifice and Votives
17. Pilgrimage and Festivals
18. Divination
19. Initiation
20. Mortuary Rituals
21. Ritual and Texts
Part III Ritual in Nascent Christianity
22. Water Ritual
23. Meal Practices
24. Rituals of Reintegration
25. Ritual and Healing
26. Sacrificial Practice and Language
27. Ritual and Religious Experience
28. Ritual and Emerging Church Hierarchy
29. Ritual and Orthodoxy
Part IV Ritual in the Ancient Church
30. Christian Initiation
31. Eucharistic Practices
32. Ritualizing Time
33. Early Christian Prayer
34. Ritual and Early Christian Art
35. Hymns and Psalmody
36. Wedding Rituals and Episcopal Power
37. Women’s Rituals and Women’s Ritualizing
38. Fasting as an Ascetic Ritual
39. The Cult of Saints
40. Ritual and the Christianization of Urban Space
Index
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