The origins of Christian veneration of body-parts
Why did Christians chose to retain human corpses unburied and to dismember them, when most other people felt obliged to dispose of the dead, usually by burial or incineration? Three possible reasons are discussed. First, the marked emphasis on physical contact in all the biblical cases of healing (a...
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Revue de l’histoire des religions
2010
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |