Kissing Christians : : Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Kissing Basics
- 2. The Kiss That Binds: Christian Communities and Group Cohesion
- 3. Difference and Distinction: The Exclusive Kiss
- 4. Boundary Violations: Purity, Promiscuity, and Betrayal
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments