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Between Personal and Institutional Religion: Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern Christianity

Between Personal and Institutional Religion: Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern... 284 Book Reviews S. DONNACHIE Swansea University, UK s.donnachie.294772@swansea.ac.uk © 2015, S. Donnachie http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1100814 Between Personal and Institutional Religion: Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern Christianity BROURIA BITTON-ASHKELONY AND LORENZO PERRONE (eds), 2013 Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, volume XV Turnhout: Brepols viii + 348 pp. €100.00 (hardcover) ISBN 9782503541310 This collected volume sheds light on a variety of topics related to change and con- tinuity in late antique eastern Christianity, taking into account “the mechanism of transformation in Eastern Christianity, discerning social and religious changes while continuing to navigate between the dynamics of personal and institutional reli- gion” (p. 2). The volume is the product of the closing conference of a research group that worked from September 2009 to August 2010 on Personal and Institutional Reli- gion: Christian Thought and Practice from the Fifth to the Eighth Centuries at the Insti- tute for Advanced Studies/Hebrew University Jerusalem. Chronologically, the essays focus on the time period from the sixth to the eighth century, with some exceptions such as in the essay by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, which spans the fourth to the eleventh century. Discussing authors from Palestine and Egypt as well as Syria and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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284 Book Reviews S. DONNACHIE Swansea University, UK s.donnachie.294772@swansea.ac.uk © 2015, S. Donnachie http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1100814 Between Personal and Institutional Religion: Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern Christianity BROURIA BITTON-ASHKELONY AND LORENZO PERRONE (eds), 2013 Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, volume XV Turnhout: Brepols viii + 348 pp. €100.00 (hardcover) ISBN 9782503541310 This collected volume...
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284 Book Reviews S. DONNACHIE Swansea University, UK s.donnachie.294772@swansea.ac.uk © 2015, S. Donnachie http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2015.1100814 Between Personal and Institutional Religion: Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern Christianity BROURIA BITTON-ASHKELONY AND LORENZO PERRONE (eds), 2013 Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, volume XV Turnhout: Brepols viii + 348 pp. €100.00 (hardcover) ISBN 9782503541310 This collected volume sheds light on a variety of topics related to change and con- tinuity in late antique eastern Christianity, taking into account “the mechanism of transformation in Eastern Christianity, discerning social and religious changes while continuing to navigate between the dynamics of personal and institutional reli- gion” (p. 2). The volume is the product of the closing conference of a research group that worked from September 2009 to August 2010 on Personal and Institutional Reli- gion: Christian Thought and Practice from the Fifth to the Eighth Centuries at the Insti- tute for Advanced Studies/Hebrew University Jerusalem. Chronologically, the essays focus on the time period from the sixth to the eighth century, with some exceptions such as in the essay by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, which spans the fourth to the eleventh century. Discussing authors from Palestine and Egypt as well as Syria and

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