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Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity – Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

Autor Thomas Sizgorich
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2014
Focusing on the shared vocabulary of images and ideas with which late ancient Christians and Muslims imagined the past, present, and future, this book seeks to understand why violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries.
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ISBN-13: 9780812223057
ISBN-10: 0812223055
Pagini: 408
Dimensiuni: 151 x 228 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion


Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter 1. "The Devil Spoke from Scripture": Boundary Maintenance and Communal Integrity in Late Antiquity
Chapter 2. "The Living Voice of Kindred Blood": Narrative, Identity, and the Primordial Past
Chapter 3. "What Has the Pious in Common with the Impious?" Ambrose, Libanius, and the Problem of Late Antique Religious Violence
Chapter 4. "Are You Christians?" Violence, Ascetics, and Knowing One's Own
Chapter 5. "Horsemen by Day and Monks by Night": Narrative and Community in Islamic Late Antiquity
Chapter 6. "The Sword Scrapes away Transgressions": Ascetic Praxis and Communal Boundaries in Late Antique Islam
Chapter 7. "Do You Not Fear God?" The Khawarij in Early Islamic Society
Chapter 8. "This Is a Very Filthy Question, and No One Should Discuss It": The Messy World of Ibn Hanbal
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Notă biografică

Thomas Sizgorich teaches history at the University of California, Irvine.

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Focusing on the shared vocabulary of images and ideas with which late ancient Christians and Muslims imagined the past, present, and future, this book seeks to understand why violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries.