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The Early Church and Community Resilience in the Late Antique Levant: An Archaeological Perspective

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This chapter explores the interaction of place, wellness, and spirituality in the fourth to seventh centuries C.E., a time of crisis which in many ways parallels some of the global shocks that we are currently facing today. In spite of manifold crises which occurred in this period in history, archaeological evidence indicates that there was an extraordinary expansion of farming and rural settlements in the Levant. In modern contexts, the success of communities in bouncing back from disasters has been explored by scholars of community resilience theory, a framework that addresses the internal social, economic, and mental capacities of communities. Using the dual lenses of both community resilience theory and archaeological evidence, I explore whether such capacities can be detected in late antique Levantine rural communities. It is argued that these kinds of capacities were generated or enhanced by the location of village communities in relation to sacred places and centers of monasticism and pilgrimage; the resulting connections between communities and the international communication structures of the church; social capital generated within local Christian religious congregations; and place-based spiritual leadership, shared values, and social networks. These findings highlight the universal value of place-based capacities, and thus the need to respect, retain, and rebuild these capacities in contemporary communities.

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Correspondence concerning this paper may be addressed to Tamara Lewit. Email: tlewit@unimelb.edu.au.

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Lewit, T. (2023). The Early Church and Community Resilience in the Late Antique Levant: An Archaeological Perspective. In: Counted, V., Ramkissoon, H., Captari, L.E., Cowden, R.G. (eds) Place, Spirituality, and Well-Being. Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39582-6_12

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