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Title

Marginality, media, and mutations of religious authority in the history of Christianity / edited by Laura Feldt and Jan N. Bremmer.

Publication

• Leuven : Peeters, 2019.
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Feldt, Laura
• Bremmer, Jan N.

Description

xi, 261 pages : illustration; 24 cm.

Summary

"Marginal figures, from heretics, ascetics and mystics to saints, visionaries and witches have played key roles in decisive mutations of religious authority in the history of different forms of Christianity. This book offers new theoretical perspectives on the theme of marginality in a series of in-depth case studies of marginal figures and forms of marginality. It presents a distinction between social marginality, often resulting from social exclusion and demonization as well as involving discomfort and distress, and religious marginality, which can be voluntary, actively sought out, and performed. The contributions analyse both social and religious forms of marginality and demonstrate how a focus on media is crucial for understanding the role of marginality in authority mutations in the long history of Christianity. The articles discuss a wide range of media, from amulets, space, technologies of the self, literary forms, to visual culture and mass and social media. The book thus offers media-based pointers for comparative, historical studies more broadly in the study of religions."--

Series Statement

Studies in the history and anthropology of religion ; 6

Uniform Title

Studies in the history and anthropology of religion ; 6.

Subjects

• Authority > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Marginality, Social > Religious aspects
• Church history
• Christian heretics

Note

• Contributions "from an international seminar held at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, in late August 2016"--Preface page vii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Marginality, media, and mutations of religious authority in the history of Christianity / Laura Feldt. The power of religious marginality : Monastic media cultures. Athanasius' Life of Antony : marginality, spatiality and mediality / Jan N. Bremmer -- Charismatic textuality and the mediation of Christianity in late Antique Egypt / David Frankfurter -- Letters from the wilderness - marginality, literarity, and religious authority changes in late Antique Gaul / Laura Feldt. Marginality as strategy and tactics: Adapting media. Symeon the new theologian, mystical poetry, and the response to the textualisation of sainthood in Byzantium / Christian Høgel -- The written media of imperial government and a martyr's career : Justin Martyr's 1 Apology / Birgit van der Lans -- Vis-Knut : marginality in folklore and folk religion / Dirk Johannsen. Marginalising others: Social marginality and narrative networks. Authority, genre and resistance : child murder in medieval Norwich, and its aftermath / Miri Rubin -- Wrath and fear. Lutheranism and the marginalisation of witches in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup. Performing marginality: Contemporary religious belonging and media cultures. Mutations of religious authority in contemporary Norway - marginality and mediatization in the case of the man from Snåsa / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- Catholic migrant, unknown visionary / Astrid Krabbe Trolle -- Prayers and stories as media and materiality : changing sources of authority in the emerging church movement / Sebastian Schüler.

Call Number

JFE 19-11321

ISBN

• 9789042936744
• 9042936746
• 9789042938861
• 9042938862

LCCN

2018459143

OCLC

1096228208

Title

Marginality, media, and mutations of religious authority in the history of Christianity / edited by Laura Feldt and Jan N. Bremmer.

Publisher

Leuven : Peeters, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in the history and anthropology of religion ; 6

Studies in the history and anthropology of religion ; 6.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Feldt, Laura, editor. Editor

Bremmer, Jan N., editor. Editor

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11321