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Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Thomas Sizgorich
Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Thomas Sizgorich
Focusing on the shared vocabulary of images and ideas with which late ancient Christians and Muslims imagined the past, present, and future, this book seeks to understand why violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries.
408 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 22, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780812241136 |
Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 408 |
Dimensions | 233 × 163 × 33 mm · 748 g |
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