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Cult of the Dead - A Brief History of Christianity (Hardcover)
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Cult of the Dead - A Brief History of Christianity (Hardcover)
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A cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs.
Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death.
Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyrs
who chose to die rather than renounce the name of their lord. In
this innovative cultural history, Kyle Smith shows how a devotion
to death has shaped Christianity for two thousand years. For
centuries, Christians have cared for their saints, curating their
deaths as examples of holiness. Martyrs' stories, lurid legends of
torture, have been told and retold, translated and rewritten.
Martyrs' bones are alive in the world, relics pulsing with wonder.
Martyrs' shrines are still visited by pilgrims, many in search of a
miracle. Martyrs have even shaped the Christian conception of time,
with each day of the year celebrating the death of a saint. From
Roman antiquity to the present, by way of medieval England and the
Protestant Reformation, Cult of the Dead tells the fascinating
story of how the world's most widespread religion is steeped in the
memory of its martyrs.
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