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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Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2021
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