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This book examines the tension between social mores and religious activities among the laity in the Italian diocese of Bergamo during the later Middle Ages (1265-c.1400). Comparing the religious activities of lay men and women, both rich and poor, across a range of pious and ecclesiastical institutions, including confraternities, hospitals, parishes and the diocese, Roisin Cossar shows how the laity's access to these institutions increasingly came to depend on their gender and social status during the fourteenth century. At the same time, she argues that all lay people, regardless of gender and social status, viewed themselves as equal members of a lay ordo. The book thus illuminates the complexity of late medieval religious culture, as it simultaneously reflected and challenged secular social values.

Laity --- Lay ministry --- Ministry, Lay --- Volunteer workers in church work --- Church work --- Priesthood, Universal --- Volunteer workers in Christian education --- Christian laity --- Laymen --- Church polity --- Catholic Church --- History. --- Laïcat --- Ministère laïque --- History --- Histoire --- Eglise catholique --- Laity - Italy - Bergamo (Province) - Catholic Church - History. --- Lay ministry - Italy - Bergamo - Catholic Church - History.

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A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in public rituals and institutions, Meghan DiLuzio emphasizes the complex, gender-inclusive nature of Roman priesthood. In ancient Rome, priestly service was a cooperative endeavor, requiring men and women, husbands and wives, and elite Romans and slaves to work together to manage the community's relationship with its gods.Like their male colleagues, priestesses offered sacrifices on behalf of the Roman people, and prayed for the community's well-being. As they carried out their ritual obligations, they were assisted by female cult personnel, many of them slave women. DiLuzio explores the central role of the Vestal Virgins and shows that they occupied just one type of priestly office open to women. Some priestesses, including the flaminica Dialis, the regina sacrorum, and the wives of the curial priests, served as part of priestly couples. Others, such as the priestesses of Ceres and Fortuna Muliebris, were largely autonomous.A Place at the Altar offers a fresh understanding of how the women of ancient Rome played a leading role in public cult.

Women priests --- Rome --- Religious life and customs. --- Religion. --- Bona Dea. --- December rites. --- Fordicidia. --- Fortuna Muliebris. --- Jupiter. --- Magna Mater. --- October House. --- Roman politics. --- Roman priesthood. --- Roman religion. --- Roman ritual system. --- Roman society. --- Roman women. --- Salian Virgins. --- Vesta. --- Vestal Virgins. --- Vestal costume. --- Vestal priesthood. --- Vestal regalia. --- Vestal virgins. --- Vestals. --- ancient Rome. --- authority. --- birth families. --- collegium pontificum. --- cultic assistants. --- female sacrificial incapacity. --- feminine virtue. --- fertility. --- flamen Martialis. --- flamen. --- flamines. --- flaminica Dialis. --- flaminica Martialis. --- flaminicae. --- food supply. --- freedwomen. --- gender constructions. --- internal autonomy. --- laywomen. --- leadership. --- male authority. --- mola salsa. --- moral probity. --- palla. --- pax deorum. --- pontifex. --- pontifical college. --- priest. --- priestess. --- priestesses. --- priestly couples. --- priestly service. --- public careers. --- public cult. --- public cults. --- public priestesses. --- public ritual. --- public slaves. --- regina sacrorum. --- religion. --- religious activities. --- religious official. --- religious orders. --- religious roles. --- religious service. --- rex sacrorum. --- ritual activities. --- ritual impurity. --- ritual purity. --- rituals. --- sacerdotes. --- saliae virgines. --- seni crines hairstyle. --- suffibulum. --- tunica. --- virginity.

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Images and inscriptions on monuments can show us how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others, illuminating the social and political identity of these figures within their polis. Dedications and donations by cult personnel, and the honours that they earned, demonstrate their claim on the city's attention and their financial power. The cityscape itself came to be shaped, in varying intensities and forms, by statues in honour of cult personnel, set up by relatives, fellow citizens and other groups. This set of cultural records, analysed in the studies presented here, is central to understanding how the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political terms in post-classical Athens. The approaches are both historical and archaeological, and elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and their perception, by themselves and by others, as citizens of the polis.

Priests --- Greece --- Religion --- Pastors --- Griechenland --- Grèce --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- Clergy --- Priesthood --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Priests - Greece - Congresses --- Greece - Religion - Congresses --- Athens. --- Cult. --- Greek Religion. --- Priests. --- Roman Religion.

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Although the use of a secular model for mentoring new Christian disciples may seem strange, this study compares Situational Leadership to the leadership principles of the Apostle Paul as means of demonstrating its efficacy as a method for mentoring new disciples.

Church work with new church members. --- Discipling (Christianity). --- Hope Springs Community Church (Lexington, Ky.). --- Lay ministry. --- Mentoring in church work. --- Discipling (Christianity) --- Church work with new church members --- Lay ministry --- Mentoring in church work --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Mentors in church work --- Church work --- Ministry, Lay --- Volunteer workers in church work --- Laity --- Priesthood, Universal --- Volunteer workers in Christian education --- New church members --- Disciplemaking (Christianity) --- Shepherding (Christianity) --- Christian life --- Evangelistic work --- Spiritual formation --- Hope Springs Community Church (Lexington, Ky.)