Mocking Parades and the Place of Pagan Statuary in Late Antique Alexandria

With the present paper I would like to discuss a particular form of procession which we may term mocking parades, a collective ritual aimed at ridiculing cultic objects from competing religious communities. The cases presented here are contextualized within incidents of pagan/Christian violence in A...

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Main Author: Stutz, Jonathan 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter [2020]
In: Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
Year: 2020, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 270-288
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Alexandria / Procession / Paganism / Gods / Statue / Society / Christianization / History 300-500
RelBib Classification:BC Ancient Orient; religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
CD Christianity and Culture
CH Christianity and Society
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Mocking Parades
B Serapeum
B Temple
B Isis
B CULT objects
B Religious Violence
B religious topography
B Alexandria
B Iconoclasm
B Processions
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