Ritual Boundaries - Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity

"Joseph Sanzo refutes the current view of Christians living amicably alongside their non-Christian neighbors, forcing us to completely rethink how we approach religion in late antiquity. A truly revolutionary book!"--Jan N. Bremmer, author of Maidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity

"Ritual Boundaries is a deeply stimulating work that examines how our material evidence regarding magic challenges and destabilizes scholarly assumptions and hypotheses about Mediterranean religion in late antiquity. A poignant exercise in the reading of objects, this book takes up familiar words and images and reveals the remarkable--and surprising--lives they 'lived' in ancient Egyptian Christian practice."--Dylan M. Burns, author of Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism

About the author

Joseph E. Sanzo is Associate Professor of History of Religions at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and author of Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph E. Sanzo
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2024
• EAN: 9780520399181
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39918-1
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Christianity in Late Antiquity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion