The neighborhood (vicus) of the Corinthian ekklēsia: beyond family-based descriptions of the first urban Christ-believers
It is commonplace to describe households as the primary social structures out of which the Jesus movement developed in its initial decades. However, the model of a Jesus movement originating from familial networks, and mostly set within domestic architecture, no longer accounts adequately for the da...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of the New Testament |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2016]
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Corinth
/ Church
/ Church
/ Social structure
/ House church
/ Neighborhood
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBK Europe (East) |
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Volltext (doi) |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | It is commonplace to describe households as the primary social structures out of which the Jesus movement developed in its initial decades. However, the model of a Jesus movement originating from familial networks, and mostly set within domestic architecture, no longer accounts adequately for the data, and reflects contemporary Western cultural settings where religion is imagined as primarily located within the private setting. Taking the earliest population of Christ-believers in Corinth as a test case, this article pursues an alternative model, one that focuses on streets and neighborhoods as the basic social unit. |
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| ISSN: | 0142-064X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X16639526 |