Funerary Rituals and Attitudes towards Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.). The Christianization of the East: An Interpretation

Funerary Rituals and Attitudes towards Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.). The Christianization of the East: An InterpretationSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/EJM2ANQS/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AntigoneSamellasFunerary Rituals and Attitudes towards Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.). The Christianization of the East: An Interpretationhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/EJM2ANQShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/EJM2ANQShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/EJM2ANQS1999I have examined the parameters, of religious change in Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia and Palestine--occasional references to Egypt, Armenia and Nestorian Persia are not lacking--from a sociological, anthropological and philosophical perspective first, by studying the affective, solidaristic and ideological functions of ritual, second, by exploring in what way the Christian eschatological ideas intersected with Greek philosophy and Jewish theology and third, by investigating how the new posthumous honours received their signification from the existing class and religious idioms. Finally I have tried to trace the emotional and ideological origins of Christian chariry and to shed some light on its political and psychological dimensions. Samellas, Antigone. “Funerary Rituals and Attitudes towards Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.). The Christianization of the East: An Interpretation.” Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1999. Antigone Samellas, Funerary Rituals and Attitudes towards Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.). The Christianization of the East: An Interpretation (Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1999).Christianizationburialdeath