Household and Family Religion in AntiquityISBN: 978-1-4051-7579-1
Hardcover
346 pages
June 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Advances our understanding of household and familial religion,
as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults
- Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt,
Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and
Philistia
- Explores many household rituals, such as providing for
ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household’s patron
deities or of spirits associated with the house itself
- Examines lifecycle rituals – from pregnancy and birth to
maturity, old age, death, and beyond
- Looks at religious practices relating to the household both within the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramural tombs and local sanctuaries
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