| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) |
| Summary |
"Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Case studies on New Testament texts, early Christian church fathers, and "Gnostic" writings trace how early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, "fattened" and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functiond as personfications of "deviant" bodily practices such as "magical" rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and "pagan" religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. Demonic Bodies demonstrates, therefore, that the formation of early Christian cultures was part of the shaping of broader Christian "ecosystems," which in turn informed Christian experiences of their own embodiment and community"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Religious Studies, 2017, under the title: Rulers of the sea |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on February 16, 2023) |
| Subject |
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
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Demonology -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
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Rites and ceremonies -- History -- To 1500
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church
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Rites and ceremonies
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021049823 |
| ISBN |
9780197581193 |
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0197581196 |
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9780197581179 |
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019758117X |
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0197581188 |
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9780197581186 |
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