A Cult from Philadelphia

Oikos Religion or Cultic Association

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ID20060926
AuthorsStanley Stowers (corresponding author), Stanley K Stowers
Year1998
Pages287-301
Publication date1998-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Early Church in Its Context (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004267367_020
OpenAlexW782406942
ISBN9789004267367
LanguageEN
Citations received12

The moral instructions together with the provision that the participants include men and women, slave and free are the features that have drawn so much attention and that have been seen as departures from earlier Greek religion and precursors of Christianity. The oikos consisted of the human and nonhuman property that belonged to the kurios. It was simultaneously a social group with a few similarities to the modem family and a highly organized collection of human and nonhuman property, including slaves and, often in reality, women. Standard Greek cultic rules, including for the oikos cult, treated sexual intercourse as a mild form of pollution to be purified by time and washing. Scholars of the inscription from Philadelphia have used the language of post Cartesian religion for interpreting the stele. Keywords: Christianity; Greek religion; kurios; oikos; Philadelphia; slaves; stele

Ancient history · Art · Christianity · Cult · Epistemology · Sociology · Stele · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious studies

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