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" Holy spit and magic spells: Religion, magic and the body in late ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam "
Adam Collins Bursi
Haines-Eitzen, Kim
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803484
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TL48275
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1696753147; 3710472
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Ralston, Joshua B.
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Holy spit and magic spells: Religion, magic and the body in late ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam\ Adam Collins BursiHaines-Eitzen, Kim
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Cornell University
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2015
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Ph.D.
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Near Eastern Studies
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2015
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308
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-86355-0
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This dissertation examines the ways that bodies are used in defining the boundaries between pious ‘religion’ and illicit ‘magic’ in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic literatures of the fifth to ninth centuries of the Common Era. Drawing upon narratives and legal discussions both of exceptional bodies (of martyrs, saints, rabbis, and prophets) and of average laypeople’s bodies, this dissertation suggests that ritual usage of the body functions in these literatures as a site for the rhetorical construction of religious identity through the differentiation of acceptable bodily practices from those defined as unacceptably sectarian or ‘magical.’ By reading discussions of ‘magical’ bodies and bodily rituals, we see that late ancient ideas of the body’s inherent power simultaneously enforced and violated the constructed boundaries between religious communities.
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Religious history; Near Eastern Studies; Comparative
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Early islam;Late ancient christianity;Late antiquity;Magic in religion;Religion and body;Sira and hadith
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Haines-Eitzen, Kim
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Near Eastern StudiesCornell University
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