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Focusing on the interplay between individual and communal spirituality, this book explores how practices and performances shape spiritual formation. It highlights three key aspects: the physical body, the social body, and the corporate body, emphasizing their roles in nurturing spiritual development. By analyzing real-life experiences, it offers insights into how communities cultivate distinct spiritualities, showcasing the importance of collective practices in fostering deeper connections and understanding within spiritual contexts.

A wide-ranging study of asceticism in the Roman and early Christian traditions, combining both historical and theoretical analysis.

This book is a collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts that constitute a comprehensive view of religious practice in Late Antiquity. This sourcebook includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom ...

For the first time, this volume offers a commentary of the Gospel of Thomas, which has previously been accessible only to theologians and scholars.