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City of Demons - Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity (Hardcover, First Edition, None Ed.)
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City of Demons - Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity (Hardcover, First Edition, None Ed.)
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Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical
authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an
important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his
role as demonologist and exorcist. When the emperor Constantine
made Christianity the official religion of the realm, bishops and
priests everywhere struggled to "Christianize" the urban spaces
still dominated by Greco-Roman monuments and festivals. During this
period of upheaval, when congregants seemingly attended everything
but their own "orthodox" church, many ecclesiastical leaders began
simultaneously to promote aggressive and insidious depictions of
the demonic. In City of Demons, Dayna S Kalleres investigates this
developing discourse and the church-sponsored rituals that went
along with it, showing how shifting ecclesiastical demonologies and
evolving practices of exorcism profoundly shaped Christian life in
the fourth century.
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