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By Shira L. Lander

ISBN-10: 1107146941

ISBN-13: 9781107146945

In Ritual websites and non secular Rivalries in past due Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorical and actual battles for sacred area among practitioners of conventional Roman faith, Christians, and Jews of past due Roman North Africa. via interpreting literary in addition to archaeological facts, Lander offers a brand new knowing of historic notions of formality area. This regard for ritual websites above different destinations rendered the act or mere recommendation of seizing and destroying them strong guns in inter-group non secular conflicts. Lander demonstrates that the amount and harshness of discursive and actual assaults on ritual areas at once correlates to their symbolic price. This heightened valuation reached this type of point that opponents have been prepared to violate traditional Roman norms of estate rights to exhibit spatial keep an eye on. additionally, Roman Imperial coverage finally appropriated spatial triumphalism as a technique for negotiating spiritual conflicts, giving upward push to a brand new kind of spatial colonialism that was once explicitly religious.

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