TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bitton-Ashkelony,Bruria
TI  - Encountering the sacred: the debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity 
T2  - The transformation of the classical heritage
SN  - 9780520931121 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BV896.P19 B58 2005eb
U1  - 263/.0425694/09015 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
KW  - Palestine
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Palestine in Christianity
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Holidays
KW  - Christian
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity; 1. Basil of Caesarea's and Gregory of Nyssa's Attitudes Toward Pilgrimage; 2. Jerome's Position on Pilgrimage: Vacillating Between Support and Reservations; 3. Augustine on Holy Space; 4. Pilgrimage in Monastic Culture; 5. Local Versus Central Pilgrimage; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Places; Index of Biblical Citations
N2  - 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
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07960
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