{"product_id":"ritual-boundaries-magic-and-differentiation-in-late-antique-christianity-volume-14-paperback","title":"Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity Volume 14 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph E. Sanzo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRitual Boundaries, \u003c\/i\u003eJoseph 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. The magical evidence 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Sanzo refutes the current view of Christians living amicably alongside their non-Christian neighbors, forcing us to completely rethink how we approach religion in late antiquity. A truly revolutionary book!--Jan N. Bremmer, author of \u003ci\u003eMaidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Ritual Boundaries\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply stimulating work that examines how our material evidence regarding magic challenges and destabilizes scholarly assumptions and hypotheses about Mediterranean religion in late antiquity. A poignant exercise in the reading of objects, this book takes up familiar words and images and reveals the remarkable--and surprising--lives they 'lived' in ancient Egyptian Christian practice.\"--Dylan M. Burns, author of \u003ci\u003eApocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph E. Sanzo\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History of Religions at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and author of \u003ci\u003eScriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 188\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750371164448,"sku":"9780520399181","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/824e61b4f1bcc40d44654a4cfb7e136c.webp?v=1779949171","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ritual-boundaries-magic-and-differentiation-in-late-antique-christianity-volume-14-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}