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

Name: Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam
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ISBN: 9780812223057

ISBN-10: 0812223055

ISBN-13: 9780812223057

Edition: 2009

Authors: Thomas Sizgorich

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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…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 3/25/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English