Ritual boundaries : magic and differentiation in late antique Christianity /

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Author / Creator:Sanzo, Joseph E., 1980- author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
©2023
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Christianity in Late Antiquity ; [14]
Christianity in late antiquity (North American Patristics Society) ; 14.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14155130
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ISBN:9780520399198
0520399196
9780520399181
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
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:Print version: Sanzo, Joseph E., 1980- Ritual boundaries Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] 9780520399181

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