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Icons of Power Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity.
In the waning years of the Roman Empire, Jews, Christians, and pagans alike used rituals to bridge the gap between the human and the divine. Depending on one's point of view, however, such rituals could be labeled negatively as ";magic"; or positively as ";theurgy."; This ha...
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University Park :
Penn State University Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Magic in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Late Antique Theories of Efficacy -- Chapter 2: The Divine Name as Effective Language In every place where I cause my name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you. -- Chapter 3: thinking with the Divine Name: Theories of Language in Christian Exegesis My reverence, Protarchus, for the names of the gods is profound.-Plato Philebus 12C, cited twice by Origen | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 4: The Meaning of Letters: From Divine Name to Cosmic Sounds We use not just words, but sounds full of efficacy -- Chapter 5: Using Names, Letters, and Praise:The Language of Ascent Tell the mystery, and seal yourself with this seal, this is his name -- Chapter 6: Combining Words and Deeds: Angelic Imprecations in The Book of Secrets -- Chapter 7: Transformation by Deed Alone:The Case of Alchemy Whatever casts off the grossness of the body becomes spirit -- Bibliography -- Index | |
| 520 | |a In the waning years of the Roman Empire, Jews, Christians, and pagans alike used rituals to bridge the gap between the human and the divine. Depending on one's point of view, however, such rituals could be labeled negatively as ";magic"; or positively as ";theurgy."; This has led to numerous problems of interpretation, including marginalizing certain ritual practices as magic or occult while privileging others as genuine or orthodox. In Icons of Power, Naomi Janowitz sifts through the polemics to make sense of the daunting mosaic of religious belief and practice in Late Antiquity. From rabbis who ascended to heavenly places, to sorcerers seeking to harm enemies with spells, to alchemists working metals to purify the soul, Janowitz reveals how ritual practitioners held common assumptions about why their rituals worked and about how to perform those rituals. Indeed, such assumptions were so much a part of the inherited mentality of the age that they were, for the most part, never explained--and this is precisely what Janowitz accomplishes in Icons of Power. By shifting the discussion out of the rhetoric of ";magic"; or ";mysticism"; and describing the mechanisms of ritual with semiotic terms, she moves us beyond the value-laden terminology of ancient polemicists and modern scholars so that we can better see how these rituals worked and how they affected the social identities of their followers. Janowitz recovers a lost world of religious expression that has been clouded by misinterpretation for many centuries. In the process, Icons of Power makes an important contribution to our understanding of society in Late Antiquity. | ||
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