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Sacred Violence - African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Paperback)
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Sacred Violence - African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Paperback)
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One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious
violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient
historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense
sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of
North Africa in late antiquity, in which Augustine played a central
role as Bishop of Hippo. The development and deployment of images
of hatred, including that of the heretic, the pagan, and the Jew,
and the modes by which these were most effectively employed,
including the oral world of the sermon, were critical to promoting
acts of violence. Shaw explores how the emerging ecclesiastical
structures of the Christian church, on one side, and those of the
Roman imperial state, on the other, interacted to repress or excite
violent action. Finally, the meaning and construction of the acts
themselves, including the Western idea of suicide, are shown to
emerge from the conflict itself.
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