Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.)

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The Christianization of the East: An Interpretation

Antigone Samellas(Autor*in)

Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)

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Erschienen im August 2020

X, 378 Seiten

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Cover
Titel
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: 50-600. An Era without Eschatological Anxieties
Introduction
A. The Serene Look of the Polytheists at the Hereafter
I. The most Painful Death: Responses to the Death of Children
II. Gods and Heroes start Dying: The Inflationary Devaluation of Religious Symbols
III. Interpretations of Salvation
B. Resurrection of the Body: An Absurd Idea, an Inextricable Philosophical Problem, a Variously-Interpreted Dogma
I. Questions Concerning the Incarnation
II. Questions Concerning the Resurrection of the Body
III. Questions Concerning the Last Judgement
IV. A Miraculous Response: The Fabrication of the Resurrection of the Seven Sleepers
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Philosophers and Bishops as Physicians of the Soul
Introduction
A. Pagan and Christian Arguments against the Practice of Ritual Lament
I. The Common Ground
i. Ritual is a harmful theatre
ii. Grief is of female gender and of barbarian onrigin
II. The Christian Objections
i. A Satanic invention
ii. Different rituals are required for the expression of the Christian grief
B. Rival but Similar Therapies of Grief: the Philosophical and Christian Logos
I. The Therapy of the Word
II. The Therapy of Reason
i. The Training of Reason
a. Reason Incarnate: Asceticim
ii. Explaining Emotions: Diogenes of Oenoanda and Gregory of Nyssa on the Fear of Death
Conclusion
Chapter 3: The Impact of Christianity on Monumental Commemoration
Introduction
A. The Christianization of Epigraphic Language
i. "And yet are those to be credited with piety who think that the way to live is this, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die'?
ii. "We show such affection for men that we love not only our friends ..."
iii. "These the stele is speaking"
B. From Ancient to Christian "Likeness": The Eclipse of the Sculpted Funerary Portrait in its Intellectual and Historical Context
Chapter 4: Putrid Corpses and Fragrant Relics: Attitudes towards the Pollution of the Dead among Pagans, Jews and Christians
Introduction
A. Intellectual and Emotional Origins of a Tactile Revolution
I. From the Pollution of Death to the Pollution of Sin
II. Why the "Lepers" Cease to be Abominable
B. The Sacralization of Death
I. The Relativity of Deadness: The Imposition of Holiness
II. The Power of Persuasion: The Many Faces of the Martyr
i. Martyrs: More Eminent than Heroes as Humble as Slaves
ii. Miraculous Powers
iii. Ceremonial Apparitions
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Functions of the Funerary and Commemorative Rituals in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600)
Introduction
A. The Ideological Function of Ritual
I. The Political Reproduction of the Civic Elite
II. Funerary Ritual and the Making of the Christian Elite
i. The Construction of Charisma: A Critical Analysis of the Funeral Orations that were Delivered in Honour of Bishops
a. The Charisma of the Emperor
b. The Charisma of the Martyr
c. The Charisma of the Rhetor
d. The Concentration of the Dispersed Charisma of Social Class
ii. Depositio ad Sanctos
iii. Commemoration in the Liturgy
B. The Honorific Function of Ritual
C. The Solidaristic and Affective Function of Ritual
D. The Originality of the Christian Organization of Burial: The Use of Ritual as a Means of Forging a Separate Religious Identity
Conclusion
Chapter 6: The Burial of the Poor: Forces that Propel and Forces that Hinder the Development of a Christian "Welfare State" in Late Antiquity
Introduction
A. Theology, Heresy and Social Welfare
I. Charity ind Proselytization: The Case of the Monophysites
i. Diakonia: Psychological, Organizational and Political Factors that Contribute to the Diffusion of Philanthropic Institutions
ii. The Making of a Strangers' Cemetery
B. Structural Weaknesses of the Christian "Welfare State"
Chapter 7: The "Longue-Durée" Pleasures of Death
Introduction
A. Feasting with the Dead
B. A Grave-Side Theatre
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Passages / Ancient Authors
Index of Places
Index of Modern Authors
Subject Index

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