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Household and family religion in antiquity

The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity.:.; Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults.; Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia.; Explores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deities or of spirits associated with the house itself.; Examines lifecycle rituals - from pregnancy and.

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