{"product_id":"encountering-the-sacred-brouria-bitton-ashkelony-9780520241916","title":"Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity Volume 38","description":"This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity-the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world-by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time. Asking how the emerging notion of a sacred geography challenged the leading intellectuals and ecclesiastical authorities, Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony deftly reshapes our understanding of early Christian mentalities by unraveling the process by which a territory of grace became a territory of power. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining ancient writers' responses to the rising practice of pilgrimage, Bitton-Ashkelony offers a nuanced reading of their thinking on the merits and the demerits of pilgrimage, revealing theological and ecclesiastical motivations that have been overlooked, and questioning the long-held assumption of scholars that pilgrimage was only a popular, not an elite, religious practice. In addition to Greek and Latin sources, she includes Syriac material, which allows her to build a rich picture of the emerging theology of landscape that took shape over the fourth to sixth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520241916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520241916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.68w x 0.90d","brand":"Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064997392639,"sku":"9780520241916","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_864d57c0-7081-4021-ad69-593cf320c719.jpg?v=1768672452","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/encountering-the-sacred-brouria-bitton-ashkelony-9780520241916","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}