The pillar saint seen as a totally devoted emperor: the in-group around Symeon Stylites the elder

Most modern studies have treated Christian pillar saints as constituting one among many types of Christian sainthood that appeared in the first centuries of Christianity. In general, these studies have emphasized the similarities that connected pillar sainthood to other forms of Christian ascetic pr...

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Main Author: Høgel, Christian 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2023
In: Religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 161-175
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Symeon Stylites, the Elder 390-459 / Devotion / Radicalism / Visibility / Empire / Authority / Performativity (Cultural sciences)
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KBK Europe (East)
KCD Hagiography; saints
Further subjects:B super-religiosity
B Symeon Stylites the Elder
B Total devotion
B mass conversion
B indiction year
B imperial ideology
B pillar saints
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