Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: the ambiguity of religious experience

In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collect...

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1. Verfasser: Rotman, Youval (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England Harvard University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung:In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective transformation prior to the rise is Islam
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (256 Seiten)
ISBN:9780674974432
DOI:10.4159/9780674974432

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