Ritual Boundaries
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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2024
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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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1369922025-05-08T13:02:05Z Ritual Boundaries Sanzo, Joseph E. early christianity; religion; magical objects; rituals 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. 2024-05-11T04:07:15Z 2024-05-11T04:07:15Z 2024-04-08T12:02:22Z 2024 book OCN: 1412153821 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89522 9780520399181 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/136992 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89522/1/ritual-boundaries.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89522/1/ritual-boundaries.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89522/1/ritual-boundaries.pdf University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.182 10.1525/luminos.182 19856893-4bf2-4e3e-9137-c7692d64e4c1 H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9780520399181 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 192 Oakland 851466 open access |
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