Garb of Being

Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity

AvGeorgia Frank,Susan Holman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

This collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiences—solitary and social, private and public—that clothed ancient Christians? How can bodily experience help us explore matters of gender, religious identity, class, and ethnicity? The Garb of Being investigates these questions through stories from the Eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies.Contributors include S. Abrams Rebillard, T. Arentzen, S. P. Brock, R. S. Falcasantos , C. M. Furey, S. H. Griffith, R. Krawiec, B. McNary-Zak, J.-N. Mellon Saint-Laurent, C. T. Schroeder, A. P. Urbano, F. M. Young

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 34 mm
Vikt:828 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823287024

Utforska kategorier

Modedesign och textilformgivning inom Kultur
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Georgia Frank (Edited By) Georgia Frank is Professor of Religion at Colgate University.Andrew Jacobs (Edited By) Andrew S. Jacobs is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.Susan Holman (Edited By) Susan R. Holman is the Eckrich Chair and Professor of Religion and the Healing Arts at Valparaiso University.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Abbreviations xiIntroduction. Dangling Bodies, Robes of Glory: The Garb of Embodiment in Ancient ChristianityGeorgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, and Andrew S. Jacobs 1Part I: Making BodiesBody and Soul: Union in Creation, Reunion at ResurrectionFrances Young 15Jesus's Dazzling Garments: Origen's Exegesis of the Transfigurationin the Commentary on MatthewArthur P. Urbano 35Conversing with Clothes: Germanos and Mary's BeltThomas Arentzen 57Part II: Performing Bodies"Denominationalism" in Fourth-Century Syria: Readings in Saint Ephraem's Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22–24Sidney H. Griffith 79A School for the Soul: John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the Force of Ritual HabitRebecca Stephens Falcasantos 101A Question of Character: The "Labor of Composition" as "Preventative Medicine" in Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious HistoryRebecca Krawiec 124"I Want to Be Alone": Ascetic Celebrity and the SplendidIsolation of Simeon StylitesAndrew S. Jacobs 145Crowds and Collective Affect in Romanos's Biblical RetellingsGeorgia Frank 169Christian Legend in Medieval Iraq: Siblings, Sacrifice, and Sanctity in Behnam and SarahJeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent 191Part III: Scripting BodiesFive Women Martyrs: From Persia to CreteSebastian Brock 221Gregory of Nazianzus's Poetic Ascetic AestheticSuzanne Abrams Rebillard 234Eclipsed in Exile: In Defense of Athanasius and the EthiopiansBernadette McNary-Zak 263Sacred Bonds: Religion, Relationships, and the Art of PedagogyConstance M. Furey 276"And Yet the Books": Patristics in the FootnotesSusan R. Holman 294Cultural Heritage Preservation and Canon Formation:What Syriac and Coptic Can Teach Usabout the Historiography of the Digital HumanitiesCaroline T. Schroeder 318Bibliography 347List of Contributors 391Index 397