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Verfasst von:	Sanzo, Joseph E. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Ritual Boundaries
Titelzusatz:	Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity
Verf.angabe:	Joseph E. Sanzo
Verlagsort:	Berkeley, CA
Verlag:	University of California Press
E-Jahr:	2024
Jahr:	[2024]
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (188 p.)
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Christianity in Late Antiquity ; 14
Schrift/Sprache:	In English
Ang. zum Inhalt:	Frontmatter
	Contents
	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Introduction
	Part I. The Discursive Boundaries of Rituals and Groups
	1 Ritual Boundaries in Late Antique Lived Religion
	2 Religious Boundaries in Late Antique Lived Religion
	Part II. The Discursive Boundaries of Texts and Traditions
	3 Words, Images, Materials, and Gestures
	4 From Torture to Triumph
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
	Index
ISBN:	978-0-520-39919-8
Abstract:	A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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
DOI:	doi:10.1525/9780520399198
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Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology
K10plus-PPN:	1887794085
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