Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church
(Part of the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series)
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In the first five centuries of the common era, the kiss was a distinctive and near-ubiquitous marker of Christianity. Although Christians did not invent the kiss--Jewish and pagan literature is filled with references to kisses between lovers, family members, and individuals in relationships of power and subordination--Christians kissed one another in highly specific settings and in ways that set them off from the non-Christian population.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:081223880X
ISBN13:9780812238808
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"
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