Ritual boundaries : magic and differentiation in late antique Christianity /

Ritual boundaries : magic and differentiation in late antique Christianity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sanzo, Joseph E., 1980- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
Description:	xiv, 171 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Christianity in Late Antiquity ; 14 Christianity in late antiquity (North American Patristics Society) ; 14.
Subject:	Magic -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Church history -- Primitive and early church. Magic -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13473619

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ISBN:	9780520399181 0520399188 9780520399198
Language / Script:	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons [CC BY-NC-ND] license. To view a copy of the license, visit. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 magical evidence 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 the Christian and non-Christian; 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"--
Other form:	Online version: Sanzo, Joseph E., 1980- Ritual boundaries Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] 9780520399198

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