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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797576903321

Autore

Kalleres Dayna S. <1970->

Titolo

City of demons : violence, ritual, and Christian power in late antiquity / / Dayna S. Kalleres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-520-95684-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Disciplina

235/.409173209015

Soggetti

Demonology - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Antioch (Turkey) Religious life and customs

Jerusalem Religious life and customs

Milan (Italy) Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The City in Late Antiquity: Where Have All the Demons Gone? -- 1. A City of Religious Pluralism and Spiritual Ambiguity -- 2. The Devil Is in the Ritual -- 3. The Spectacle of Exorcism -- 4. Jerusalem to Aelia, Aelia to Jerusalem: Monumental Transformations -- 5. Cyril of Jerusalem: The Devil in the Word, the Demons in the Image -- 6. Apocalyptic Prophets and the Cross: Revealing Jerusalem's Demons from the Crucifixion to the End of Days -- 7. Ambrose and Nicene Demoniacs: Charismatic Christianity Inside and Outside Milan -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Ancient Language Editions by Series -- Translations of Ancient Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his role as demonologist and exorcist. When the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the realm, bishops and priests everywhere struggled  to "Christianize" the urban spaces still dominated by Greco-Roman monuments and festivals. During this



period of upheaval, when congregants seemingly attended everything but their own "orthodox" church, many ecclesiastical leaders began simultaneously to promote aggressive and insidious depictions of the demonic. In City of Demons, Dayna S. Kalleres investigates this developing discourse and the church-sponsored rituals that went along with it, showing how shifting ecclesiastical demonologies and evolving practices of exorcism profoundly shaped Christian life in the fourth century.