Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions) - Hardcover

Buch 3 von 7: Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions

Blidstein, Moshe

 
9780198791959: Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 019879195X ISBN 13: 9780198791959
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK), 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian writers, readers, and listeners from the first to third centuries. Anthropological and sociological work over the past decades have demonstrated how purity and defilement rituals, practices, and discourses harness the power of a raw emotion in order to shape and manipulate cultural structures. Moshe Blidstein builds on such theories to explain how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions on purity and defilement, using them to create new types of community, form Christian identity, and articulate the relationship between body, sin, and ritual. Blidstein discusses early Christian purity issues under several headings: dietary law, death defilement, purity of the heart, defilement of outsiders, and purity of the community. Analysis of the motivations shaping the development of each area of discourse reveals two major considerations: polemical and substantive. Thus, Christian writing on dietary law and death defilement is essentially polemical, constructing Christian identity by marking the purity practices and beliefs of others as false. Concerning the subjects of baptism, eucharist, and penance, however, the discourse turns inwards and becomes more substantive, seeking to create and maintain theories of ritual and human nature coherent with the theological principles of the new religion.

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Moshe Blidstein is Postdoctoral fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press(UK)
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
019879195X
ISBN 13 
9780198791959
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Anzahl der Seiten
304
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