Official and Popular Religion
Subtitle: Analysis of a Theme for Religious Studies (Religion and society)
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Published: June 1979
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 739
ISBN-13: 9789027979988
Subjects: Religion; Religions; Addresses, essays, lectures
First sentence: In his Confessions, St. Augustine illustrates with the following story the great respect of his mother Monica for St. Ambrose, the famous bishop of Milan: 'It had been my mother's custom in Africa to take meal-cakes and bread and wine to the shrines of the saints on their memorial days, but the doorkeeper would not allow her to do this in Milan.