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dc.contributor.authorSanzo, Joseph E.
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-08T12:02:22Z
dc.date.available2024-04-08T12:02:22Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89522
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianityen_US
dc.subject.otherearly christianity; religion; magical objects; ritualsen_US
dc.titleRitual Boundariesen_US
dc.title.alternativeMagic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianityen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.182en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3ben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780520399181en_US
oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)en_US
oapen.pages192en_US
oapen.place.publicationOaklanden_US
oapen.grant.number851466


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