Holy spit and magic spells: Religion, magic and the body in late ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Adam Collins Bursi
نام ساير پديدآوران
Haines-Eitzen, Kim
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Cornell University
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2015
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
308
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-86355-0
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
نظم درجات
Near Eastern Studies
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Cornell University
امتياز متن
2015
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This dissertation examines the ways that bodies are used in defining the boundaries between pious 'religion' and illicit 'magic' in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic literatures of the fifth to ninth centuries of the Common Era. Drawing upon narratives and legal discussions both of exceptional bodies (of martyrs, saints, rabbis, and prophets) and of average laypeople's bodies, this dissertation suggests that ritual usage of the body functions in these literatures as a site for the rhetorical construction of religious identity through the differentiation of acceptable bodily practices from those defined as unacceptably sectarian or 'magical.' By reading discussions of 'magical' bodies and bodily rituals, we see that late ancient ideas of the body's inherent power simultaneously enforced and violated the constructed boundaries between religious communities.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Religious history; Near Eastern Studies; Comparative
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Early islam;Late ancient christianity;Late antiquity;Magic in religion;Religion and body;Sira and hadith
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