Resumen de The end of ancestor worship: affect and class.
Seen especially in the period 50 BC to 450 AD, in rites and beliefs that succeeded burial and mourning, ancestor worship is known throughout the Mediterranean world chiefly through material remains found at around a hundred sites. A meaningful part of life among hundreds of millions across the chosen period, it nevertheless seemed to the church leadership to challenge their control and beliefs about mortality and, most of all, to involve intolerably gross and disgusting behavior. With imperial aid, it was more or less closed down within a generation, in a campaign led by Saint Augustine.
