This conference explores the diverse manifestations of global Christianities from the early first to the mid-second Millennium CE and its “entanglement” with diverse local cultures and contexts. For example, what did it mean to be Christian in medieval Kiev? What enabled Christians in the Middle East to maintain their faith identity under Muslim domination? To […]
The event brings together a distinguished group of Egyptologists and Nubiologists to explore the historical, archaeological, and cultural trajectories of the Nile Valley through an interdisciplinary lens. The conference is part of the programming for the ongoing exhibition The World Between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa at The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia […]
Water has been the central element of Christian baptism since the very beginnings of Christianity. Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles. Baptism with water, whether by immersion or sprinkling, has always been the primary initiation ritual […]
Organizers: John Bodel, Brown University; William Owens, Ohio University; Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College In his 1965 book Sklaverei und Humanität, Joseph Vogt offered a description of Roman slavery in which […]
