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A Memory of Violence

Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity

Christine Shepardson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41353-5 (ISBN)

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Through the fifth and sixth centuries, major divisions rocked Christianity as different factions vied to make their teachings the doctrine of the Roman Empire’s imperial church. In the aftermath of the Council of Chalcedon in 451, miaphysite Christians, often targeted as heretics by the imperial church, confronted periodic violence and persecution. In this book, Christine Shepardson reshapes our understanding of late antiquity by centering Syriac Christianity in these complex and politicized doctrinal conflicts. Drawing on critical studies of violence and memory, she traces narratives of resistance and other rhetorical strategies by which miaphysite leaders radicalized their followers to endure physical deprivation and harm rather than abandon their church community.

Christine Shepardson is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is author of Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy and Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria.

Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Translation and Transliteration
Chronology of Key Dates
List of Key Figures
Maps

Introduction: An Imperial Church in Turmoil
1. Historical Foundations: Social Networks and Regional Diversity
2. Genealogies of Orthodoxy: Remembering the Saints
3. Genealogies of Heresy: Remembering Nestorius and Chalcedon
4. Victims of Violence: Narratives of Suffering and Persecution
5. Suffering Now or Later: Prophecy and the Final Judgment
6. Ritual Flash Points: Performing Radical Difference
7. Give It Up for God: John of Ephesus and the Later Sixth Century

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	2 b-w maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	0-520-41353-9 / 0520413539
ISBN-13	978-0-520-41353-5 / 9780520413535
Zustand	Neuware