TY  - BOOK
AU  - Potthoff,Stephen
TI  - The afterlife in early Christian Carthage: near-death experience, ancestor cult, and the archaeology of paradise in the ancient Mediterranean world 
T2  - Routledge studies in the early Christian world
SN  - 9781317294061 (ePub ebook) :
U1  - 276.1101 23
KW  - Christian cemeteries
KW  - Tunisia
KW  - Carthage (Extinct city)
KW  - Death
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Future life
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - Academic; 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; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK)
ER  -