Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and indexes.
Contents
Experiencing the meal -- New paradigms for the study of early Christian identities -- Hellenistic and early Christian social practice of festive meals -- Ritual analysis : a new method for the study of early Christian meals -- Expansive character of early Christian meals -- Meals of resistance to Roman imperial power -- Meals and early Christian social experimentation -- Identity performance as a new paradigm for the study of Christian beginnings -- Epilogue : reflections on twenty-first-century Christian worship.
