Symeon the Holy Fool - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Symeon the Holy Fool write by Derek Krueger. This book was released on 2024-07-19. Symeon the Holy Fool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium
Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium write by Youval Rotman. This book was released on 2016-09-19. Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prologue. Insanity and religion -- Part I. Sanctified insanity: between history and psychology -- The paradox that inhabits ambiguity -- Meanings of insanity -- Part II. Abnormality and social change: early Christianity vs. rabbinic Judaism -- Abnormality and social change -- Socializing nature: the ascetic totem -- Epilogue. Psychology, religion, and social change
Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium write by Claudia Rapp. This book was released on 2016. Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social networking strategy among lay people from the ninth century onwards, even finding application in recent times. Located at the intersection of religion and society, brother-making exemplifies how social practice can become ritualized and subsequently subjected to attempts of ecclesiastical and legal control. Controversially, adelphopoiesis was at the center of a modern debate about the existence of same-sex unions in medieval Europe. This book, the first ever comprehensive history of this unique feature of Byzantine life, argues persuasively that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage. Wide-ranging in its use of sources, from a complete census of the manuscripts containing the ritual of adelphopoiesis to the literature and archaeology of early monasticism, and from the works of hagiographers, historiographers, and legal experts in Byzantium to comparative material in the Latin West and the Slavic world, Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium examines the fascinating religious and social features of the ritual, shedding light on little known aspects of Byzantine society.
The Life of Symeon the Holy Fool by Leontios of Neapolis
The Life of Symeon the Holy Fool by Leontios of Neapolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Symeon the Holy Fool by Leontios of Neapolis write by Mark Ray Horton. This book was released on 1988. The Life of Symeon the Holy Fool by Leontios of Neapolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Jumble Sales of the Apocalypse
Jumble Sales of the Apocalypse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jumble Sales of the Apocalypse write by Simon Jenkins. This book was released on 2017-03-16. Jumble Sales of the Apocalypse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘What do you do when the Second Coming is scheduled for next Wednesday? . . . Assemble at your nearest church? Make sure you’ve got clean underwear on? Confess those last sins? Send some goodbye texts to unbelieving friends? Take Paracetamol in case the rapture gives you the bends?’ Those and other neglected theological questions are rigorously examined in this book. With its gently satirical take on some of the weird ways in which people express their beliefs, it’s a book that will help you appreciate the true value of religion by exploring the comedy of its wilder excesses. Whether you’re a believer or a non-believer, fond of religion or a more than just a bit suspicious of it, you’ll find your assumptions are far from safe after reading it!
