Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam

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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Hlavný autor:	Sizgorich, Thomas
Médium:	E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 2012 University of Pennsylvania Press
Vydanie:	1
Edícia:	Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Predmet:	Ambrose Ancient Ancient Religion History ascetics Christian Christianity extremism History HISTORY / Ancient / General Ibn Hanbal Identity (Psychology) Identity (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Christianity Identity (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Islam Islam Khawarjj late antiquity Libanius Martyrdom Martyrdom > Christianity Martyrdom > Islam martyrs militancy militant Muslim piety RELIGION RELIGION / History Religious aspects Religious Studies Violence Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity Violence > Religious aspects > Islam violent extremism Ancient Religion History violent militancy Religious Studies Khawarjj piety Ambrose ascetics Christianity Muslim martyrs Ibn Hanbal late antiquity Islam Christian Libanius militant martyrdom
ISBN:	0812241134, 9780812241136, 9780812207446, 0812207440, 9780812223057, 0812223055
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Shrnutí:	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.
Bibliografia:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-382) and index
ISBN:	0812241134 9780812241136 9780812207446 0812207440 9780812223057 0812223055
DOI:	10.9783/9780812207446