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Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
Kissing Christians Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Author: Michael Philip Penn
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 anoth...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812238808
ISBN-10: 081223880X
Publication Date: 8/29/2005
Pages: 200
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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