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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...

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Έκδοση: University of California Press 2024
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.182
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-895222024-04-09T02:23:31Z Ritual Boundaries Sanzo, Joseph E. early christianity; religion; magical objects; rituals thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity 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. Sanzo’s examination of the magical 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. 2024-04-08T12:02:22Z 2024-04-08T12:02:22Z 2024 book 9780520399181 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89522 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International ritual-boundaries.pdf https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.182 University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.182 10.1525/luminos.182 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9780520399181 European Research Council (ERC) 192 Oakland 851466 H2020 European Research Council H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council open access
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description 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. Sanzo’s examination of the magical 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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