Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church
ISBN: 9780812203325
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Kissing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Worship -- History -- Early church ca. 30–600; Church history;

Kissing was one of the most widely practiced early Christian rituals. Kissing Christians presents the first comprehensive study of how ancient controversies concerning this rite became part of larger debates regarding the internal structure of ancient Christian communities and their relations with outsiders.


Michael Philip Penn teaches religion at Mount Holyoke College.
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