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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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