RT Book
T1 Demonic bodies and the dark ecologies of early Christian culture
A1 Proctor, Travis W.
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1777573173
AB "Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Case studies on New Testament texts, early Christian church fathers, and "Gnostic" writings trace how early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, "fattened" and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functiond as personfications of "deviant" bodily practices such as "magical" rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and "pagan" religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. Demonic Bodies demonstrates, therefore, that the formation of early Christian cultures was part of the shaping of broader Christian "ecosystems," which in turn informed Christian experiences of their own embodiment and community"--
NO Originally presented as author's Thesis (Ph. D.--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Religious Studies, 2017) under the title: Rulers of the sea)
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BT741.3
SN 9780197581162
K1 Human Body : Religious aspects : Christianity : History of doctrines : Early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Demonology : History of doctrines : Early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Rites and ceremonies : History : To 1500
K1 Church History : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Hochschulschrift