Origins and Significance of Christian Feasts
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How did a Roman emperor's calendar reform become the foundation for a revolutionary Christian reimagining of sacred time that still shapes our daily lives today?
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary study reveals the profound transformation of temporal consciousness that occurred when Christianity restructured the ancient world's organization of public and private time. Moving beyond surface-level explanations of familiar holidays, this volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of how Christian communities strategically adapted, transformed, and ultimately revolutionized pagan festival traditions to create a new sacred temporality that would define Western civilization.