Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity : : Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam / / Thomas Sizgorich.
In Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity, Thomas Sizgorich seeks to understand why and how violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of both Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries. Sizgorich argues that the cultivation of vio...
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Sizgorich, Thomas, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity : Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam / Thomas Sizgorich. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012] ©2009 1 online resource (408 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. "The Devil Spoke from Scripture": Boundary Maintenance and Communal Integrity in Late Antiquity -- CHAPTER TWO. "The Living Voice of Kindred Blood": Narrative, Identity, and the Primordial Past -- CHAPTER THREE. "What Has the Pious in Common with the Impious?" Ambrose, Libanius, and the Problem of Late Antique Religious Violence -- CHAPTER FOUR. "Are You Christians?" Violence, Ascetics, and Knowing One's Own -- CHAPTER FIVE. "Horsemen by Day and Monks by Night": Narrative and Community in Islamic Late Antiquity -- CHAPTER SIX. "The Sword Scrapes Away Transgressions": Ascetic Praxis and Communal Boundaries in Late Antique Islam -- CHAPTER SEVEN. "Do You Not Fear God?" The Khāwarij in Early Islamic Society -- CHAPTER EIGHT. "This Is a Very Filthy Question, and No One Should Discuss It": The Messy World of Ibn Ḥanbal -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity, Thomas Sizgorich seeks to understand why and how violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of both Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries. Sizgorich argues that the cultivation of violent martyrdom as a path to holiness was in no way particular to Islam; rather, it emerged from a matrix put into place by the Christians of late antiquity. Paying close attention to the role of memory and narrative in the formation of individual and communal selves, Sizgorich identifies a common pool of late ancient narrative forms upon which both Christian and Muslim communities drew.In the process of recollecting the past, Sizgorich explains, Christian and Muslim communities alike elaborated iterations of Christianity or Islam that demanded of each believer a willingness to endure or inflict violence on God's behalf and thereby created militant local pieties that claimed to represent the one "real" Christianity or the only "pure" form of Islam. These militant communities used a shared system of signs, symbols, and stories, stories in which the faithful manifested their purity in conflict with the imperial powers of the world. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Religious Studies. RELIGION / History. bisacsh Ancient Studies. History. Religion. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Religion 9783110413588 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812241136 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207446 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812207446 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812207446/original |
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Sizgorich, Thomas, Sizgorich, Thomas, Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity : Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam / Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. "The Devil Spoke from Scripture": Boundary Maintenance and Communal Integrity in Late Antiquity -- CHAPTER TWO. "The Living Voice of Kindred Blood": Narrative, Identity, and the Primordial Past -- CHAPTER THREE. "What Has the Pious in Common with the Impious?" Ambrose, Libanius, and the Problem of Late Antique Religious Violence -- CHAPTER FOUR. "Are You Christians?" Violence, Ascetics, and Knowing One's Own -- CHAPTER FIVE. "Horsemen by Day and Monks by Night": Narrative and Community in Islamic Late Antiquity -- CHAPTER SIX. "The Sword Scrapes Away Transgressions": Ascetic Praxis and Communal Boundaries in Late Antique Islam -- CHAPTER SEVEN. "Do You Not Fear God?" The Khāwarij in Early Islamic Society -- CHAPTER EIGHT. "This Is a Very Filthy Question, and No One Should Discuss It": The Messy World of Ibn Ḥanbal -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. "The Devil Spoke from Scripture": Boundary Maintenance and Communal Integrity in Late Antiquity -- CHAPTER TWO. "The Living Voice of Kindred Blood": Narrative, Identity, and the Primordial Past -- CHAPTER THREE. "What Has the Pious in Common with the Impious?" Ambrose, Libanius, and the Problem of Late Antique Religious Violence -- CHAPTER FOUR. "Are You Christians?" Violence, Ascetics, and Knowing One's Own -- CHAPTER FIVE. "Horsemen by Day and Monks by Night": Narrative and Community in Islamic Late Antiquity -- CHAPTER SIX. "The Sword Scrapes Away Transgressions": Ascetic Praxis and Communal Boundaries in Late Antique Islam -- CHAPTER SEVEN. "Do You Not Fear God?" The Khāwarij in Early Islamic Society -- CHAPTER EIGHT. "This Is a Very Filthy Question, and No One Should Discuss It": The Messy World of Ibn Ḥanbal -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. "The Devil Spoke from Scripture": Boundary Maintenance and Communal Integrity in Late Antiquity -- CHAPTER TWO. "The Living Voice of Kindred Blood": Narrative, Identity, and the Primordial Past -- CHAPTER THREE. "What Has the Pious in Common with the Impious?" Ambrose, Libanius, and the Problem of Late Antique Religious Violence -- CHAPTER FOUR. "Are You Christians?" Violence, Ascetics, and Knowing One's Own -- CHAPTER FIVE. "Horsemen by Day and Monks by Night": Narrative and Community in Islamic Late Antiquity -- CHAPTER SIX. "The Sword Scrapes Away Transgressions": Ascetic Praxis and Communal Boundaries in Late Antique Islam -- CHAPTER SEVEN. "Do You Not Fear God?" The Khāwarij in Early Islamic Society -- CHAPTER EIGHT. "This Is a Very Filthy Question, and No One Should Discuss It": The Messy World of Ibn Ḥanbal -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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