Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium : The Ambiguity of Religious Experience / Youval Rotman.
2016
BF51 .R64 2016eb
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Title
Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium : The Ambiguity of Religious Experience / Youval Rotman.
Author
Rotman, Youval, author.
ISBN
9780674974432
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (244 p.)
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10.4159/9780674974432 doi
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BF51 .R64 2016eb
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204/.209495
Summary
In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective transformation prior to the rise is Islam.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Prologue: Insanity and Religion
Part I. Sanctified Insanity: Between History and Psychology
1. The Paradox That Inhabits Ambiguity
2. Meanings of Insanity
Part II. Abnormality and Social Change: Early Christianity versus Rabbinic Judaism
3. Abnormality and Social Change: Insanity and Martyrdom
4. Socializing Nature: The Ascetic Totem
Epilogue: Psychology, Religion, and Social Change
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Prologue: Insanity and Religion
Part I. Sanctified Insanity: Between History and Psychology
1. The Paradox That Inhabits Ambiguity
2. Meanings of Insanity
Part II. Abnormality and Social Change: Early Christianity versus Rabbinic Judaism
3. Abnormality and Social Change: Insanity and Martyrdom
4. Socializing Nature: The Ascetic Totem
Epilogue: Psychology, Religion, and Social Change
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index