Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church by Michael Philip Penn

Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church

Michael Philip Penn

186 pages hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction history religion informative medium-paced
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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, fami...

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