Rikard Roitto - The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual

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THIS Handbook emerged from a collaboration between a collective research project Ritual and the Emergence of Early Christian Religion (REECR; Academy of Finland project #1266452), led by Risto Uro, and two experts in ritual and early Christian studies, Juliette Day and Richard E. DeMaris. Two members of the REECR project, Risto Uro and Rikard Roitto, formed an editorial team with Day and DeMaris, but other members and external advisors supported the Handbook project in a number of ways. The editors would like to thank Nina Nikki for her valuable assistance in technical editing, Anne Katrine Gudme, Vojtch Kae, and Istvn Czachesz for their continuous support and feedback at various stages of the project. The REECR external advisors Joseph Bulbulia, Douglas Davies, and Armin W. Geertz also supported the Handbook project during the whole process.

We would like to thank Tom Perridge for his advice and encouragement at the beginning of the project as well as other staff and affiliates at Oxford University Press: Karen Raith, Susan Dunsmore, and Sai Sarath Ram. We are grateful to Ellen Valle for editing the English language of three chapters (1, 23, 25).

Finally, we would like to thank all our contributors for their willingness to take part in our interdisciplinary enterprise and for their patience in the process of its production.

Risto Uro

Juliette Day

Richard E. DeMaris

Rikard Roitto

Risto Uro

Barry Stephenson

Barry Stephenson

Douglas J. Davies

Eva Kundtov Klocov and Armin W. Geertz

Joseph Bulbulia

Istvn Czachesz

Rubina Raja

John S. Kloppenborg

Fanny Dolansky

Istvn Czachesz

Richard S. Ascough

Thomas Kazen

David E. Aune

Jade B. Weimer

Daniel Ullucci

Laura Feldt

Martti Nissinen

Luther H. Martin

Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme

Anders Klostergaard Petersen

Richard E. DeMaris

Vojtch Kae

Rikard Roitto

Gerd Theissen

Christian A. Eberhart

Colleen Shantz

Susan E. Hylen

Pheme Perkins

Paul F. Bradshaw

Lizette Larson-Miller

Juliette J. Day

L. Edward Phillips

Robin M. Jensen

Angela Kim Harkins and Brian P. Dunkle, SJ

David G. Hunter

Juliette J. Day

Richard Finn, OP

David L. Eastman

Jacob A. Latham