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Domestic religion, family life and the apocryphal Acts of the Apostles

Domestic religion, family life and the apocryphal Acts of the Apostles Marco FrenschkowskiDomestic religion, family life and theapocryphal Acts of the ApostlesI Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles as sources forinformation on domestic religionExploring the ancient family and household religion is still a field of surprises andpossible discoveries, especially as the question of sources and their possible evidential value is far from obvious. Interviews and strict statistical studies not being available, we have to do the second best thing, and survey all possible sources for thekind of information they may possibly yield. Only in juxtaposition of as many sources as possible, and with corroborative evidence from different quarters an imagewill emerge that spans different social strata and allows for a detailed and diversifiedperception. How are private, personal, family and public expressions of “religion”interconnected? And very simply, where does “religion” take place? Christianity asa missionary movement competes with traditional religions and ritual systems,and to some degree is also defined by this competition.¹ How is religion expressedin household artefacts and rituals of everyday life? As Christianity originally was areligion of radical reduction of ritual complexity compared to ancient public rituallife², it is of special importance to look out for all information we can get about domestic religion in its earlier centuries. Non-Christians in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archiv für Religionsgeschichte de Gruyter

Domestic religion, family life and the apocryphal Acts of the Apostles

Frenschkowski, Marco
Archiv für Religionsgeschichte , Volume 18-19 (1): 34 – Sep 26, 2017
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Marco FrenschkowskiDomestic religion, family life and theapocryphal Acts of the ApostlesI Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles as sources forinformation on domestic religionExploring the ancient family and household religion is still a field of surprises andpossible discoveries, especially as the question of sources and their possible evidential value is far from obvious. Interviews and strict statistical studies not being available, we have to do the second best thing, and survey all possible sources for thekind of information they may possibly yield. Only in juxtaposition of as many sources as possible, and with corroborative evidence from different quarters an imagewill emerge that spans different social strata and allows for a detailed and diversifiedperception. How are private, personal, family and public expressions of “religion”interconnected? And very simply, where does “religion” take place? Christianity asa missionary movement competes with traditional religions and ritual systems,and to some degree is also defined by this competition.¹ How is religion expressedin household artefacts and rituals of everyday life? As Christianity originally was areligion of radical reduction of ritual complexity compared to ancient public rituallife², it is of special importance to look out for all information we can get about domestic religion in its earlier centuries. Non-Christians in

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