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The afterlife in early Christian Carthage : near-death experience, ancestor cult, and the archaeology of paradise in the ancient Mediterranean world / Stephen E. Potthoff.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in the early Christian worldDescription: 1 online resourceISBN:
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Contents:
Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: Rebirthing Paradise in the Sacred Space of Vision and Cemetery Chapter 2: Ghosts, Graveside Dining, and Dreams of Paradise: Mediterranean Ancestor Cult in the Early Christian Period Chapter 3: Mediterranean Ancestor Cult in Carthage: Hungry Ghosts and the Roman Cemetery as Other World Chapter 4: Dining, Divining, and Divorcing the Dead: The Age of Tertullian and Perpetua Chapter 5: The Age of Cyprian: Burial Clubs and Banquets in Paradise Chapter 6: The Age of Augustine: Burial ad sanctos, Graveside Parties, and the Abodes of Body and Soul after Death Chapter 7: Christian Burial ad sanctos at Carthage: Pressing on to Heaven in the Paradisal Realm of the Cemetery Chapter 8: Refreshment and Reunion in the Garden of Light: Sculpting Paradise at the Grave Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: Rebirthing Paradise in the Sacred Space of Vision and Cemetery Chapter 2: Ghosts, Graveside Dining, and Dreams of Paradise: Mediterranean Ancestor Cult in the Early Christian Period Chapter 3: Mediterranean Ancestor Cult in Carthage: Hungry Ghosts and the Roman Cemetery as Other World Chapter 4: Dining, Divining, and Divorcing the Dead: The Age of Tertullian and Perpetua Chapter 5: The Age of Cyprian: Burial Clubs and Banquets in Paradise Chapter 6: The Age of Augustine: Burial ad sanctos, Graveside Parties, and the Abodes of Body and Soul after Death Chapter 7: Christian Burial ad sanctos at Carthage: Pressing on to Heaven in the Paradisal Realm of the Cemetery Chapter 8: Refreshment and Reunion in the Garden of Light: Sculpting Paradise at the Grave Conclusion Bibliography Index

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