Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine

One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished...
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Author: Brent D. Shaw
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Language: English
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Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine by Shaw, Brent D.

Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine

€133,29

Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine

€133,29
Author: Brent D. Shaw
Format: Paperback
Language: English
One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in late antiquity, in which Augustine played a central role as Bishop of Hippo. The development and deployment of images of hatred, including that of the heretic, the pagan, and the Jew, and the modes by which these were most effectively employed, including the oral world of the sermon, were critical to promoting acts of violence. Shaw explores how the emerging ecclesiastical structures of the Christian church, on one side, and those of the Roman imperial state, on the other, interacted to repress or excite violent action. Finally, the meaning and construction of the acts themselves, including the Western idea of suicide, are shown to emerge from the conflict itself.

Author: Brent D. Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/01/2011
Pages: 932
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780521127257


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About the Author
Shaw, Brent D.: - "Brent D. Shaw is currently the Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He has published widely on the regional history of the Roman empire - with particular emphasis on the North African provinces and the problem of violence in its historical contexts - in major journals including the Journal of Roman Studies, Past and Present and the American Historical Review. He has also written, with other Princeton faculty in history, a new world history text entitled Worlds Together, Worlds Apart."

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