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Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity Volume 14

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Availability:In StockContributor:Joseph E. SanzoSeries:Christianity in Late AntiquityPublish date:2024-04-02Pages:188
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520399181ISBN-10:520399188UPC:9780520399181Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Antiquities & Archaeology, Paganism & Neo-Paganism, AncientSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCEZB14FNS
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In Ritual Boundaries, Joseph E. Sanzo transforms our understanding of how early Christians experienced religion in lived practice through the study of magical objects, such as amulets and grimoires. Against the prevailing view of late antiquity as a time when only so-called elites were interested in religious and ritual differentiation, the evidence presented here reveals that the desire to distinguish between religious and ritual insiders and outsiders cut across diverse social strata. The magical evidence also offers unique insight into early biblical reception, exposing a textual world in which scriptural reading was multisensory and multitraditional. As they addressed sickness, demonic struggle, and interpersonal conflicts, Mediterranean people thus acted in ways that challenge our conceptual boundaries between Christians and non-Christians; elites and non-elites; and words, materials, and images. Sanzo helps us rethink how early Christians imagined similarity and difference among texts, traditions, groups, and rituals as they went about their daily lives.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520399181ISBN-10:520399188UPC:9780520399181Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Antiquities & Archaeology, Paganism & Neo-Paganism, AncientSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCEZB14FNS
Joseph E. Sanzo is Associate Professor of History of Religions at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and author of Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory.
Publisher: University of California Press

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