Of Materiality, Cultic Spaces, and Agency … and Discourse in Between: The Entanglement of Religious Space, Discourse, and Practice in Two Case Studies—Two Mithraea and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

This programmatic essay builds on Jane Bennett’s concept of material vitality in exploring “the agency of the things that produce effects in human and other bodies,” while simultaneously broadening the perspective to take in the concept of discourse in order to elucidate human–matter interaction and...

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Main Author: van den Heever, Gerhard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2023
In: Journal of early Christian history
Year: 2023, Volume: 13, Issue: 3, Pages: 57-114
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Cultural turn
B Discourse
B Church of the Holy Sepulchre
B Mithras
B spatiality theory
B Material Turn
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