City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity by Kalleres, Dayna S.

City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520276475)

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City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity by Kalleres, Dayna S.

City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity

$95.00
City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity by Kalleres, Dayna S.

City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his role as demonologist and exorcist. When the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the realm, bishops and priests everywhere struggled to "Christianize" the urban spaces still dominated by Greco-Roman monuments and festivals. During this period of upheaval, when congregants seemingly attended everything but their own "orthodox" church, many ecclesiastical leaders began simultaneously to promote aggressive and insidious depictions of the demonic. In City of Demons, Dayna S. Kalleres investigates this developing discourse and the church-sponsored rituals that went along with it, showing how shifting ecclesiastical demonologies and evolving practices of exorcism profoundly shaped Christian life in the fourth century.

Author: Dayna S. Kalleres
ISBN-10: 0520276477
ISBN-13: 9780520276475
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2015
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d
By Dayna S. Kalleres
By Dayna S. Kalleres
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Dayna S. Kalleres is Assistant Professor of Early Christianity at the University of California, San Diego.

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