Ritual Boundaries : Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity /

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Author / Creator:Sanzo, Joseph E., author.
Imprint:Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2024]
©2024
Description:1 online resource (188 p.).
Language:English
Series:Christianity in Late Antiquity ; 14
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14150599
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ISBN:9780520399198
0520399196
0520399188
9780520399181
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:In English.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024).
Summary: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.
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