Icons of Power - Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity

Janowitz sifts through the polemics to make sense of the daunting mosaic of religious belief and practice in Late Antiquity. Janowitz reveals how ritual practitioners held common assumptions about why their rituals worked and how to perform them. Icons of Power makes an important contribution to our understanding of society in Late Antiquity.

About the author

Naomi Janowitz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of The Poetics of Ascent: Theories of Language in a Rabbinic Ascent Text (1989).

Summary

Janowitz sifts through the polemics to make sense of the daunting mosaic of religious belief and practice in Late Antiquity. Janowitz reveals how ritual practitioners held common assumptions about why their rituals worked and how to perform them. Icons of Power makes an important contribution to our understanding of society in Late Antiquity.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Janowitz, Naomi (University of California Janowitz
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2022
• EAN: 9780271021478
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02147-8
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 434 g
• Series: Magic in History; Magic in History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories