UID:
almafu_9961535639102883
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 318 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781009405751
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1009405756
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9781009405768
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1009405764
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9781009405782
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1009405780
Content:
Ancient Christians and their non-Christian contemporaries lived in a world of 'magic.' Sometimes, they used curses as ritual objects to seek justice from gods and other beings; sometimes, they argued against them. Curses, and the writings of those who polemicized against curses, reveal the complexity of ancient Mediterranean religions, in which materiality, poetics, song, incantation, and glossolalia were used as technologies of power. Laura Nasrallah's study reframes the field of religion, the study of the Roman imperial period, and the investigation of the New Testament and ancient Christianity. Her approach eschews disciplinary aesthetics that privilege the literature and archaeological remains of elites, and that defines curses as magical materials, separable from religious ritual. Moreover, Nasrallah's imaginative use of art and 'research creations' of contemporary Black painters, sculptors, and poets offer insights for understanding how ancient ritual materials embedded into art work intervene into the present moment and critique injustice.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jun 2024).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on the Cover -- Introduction: Curses, Religion, Aesthetics -- Aesthetics and Artistic Practice -- (Re)defining Aesthetics -- Magic, Gender, and Political Danger -- Curses -- Looking Forward -- 1 Making Justice: Curses, Justin Martyr, and the Nailing of Documents -- A Curse from Cyprus -- Creating Legal Archives: Justin's Apologies and Imperial Rescripts -- Justin, Demons, Justice -- Conclusions -- 2 Substance and Story: A Greengrocer and the Pharaoh at Antioch -- What Is a Historiola? -- How to Think Story and Substance: Glenn Ligon's Untitled (I am an invisible man) -- The Babylas Curses -- The Pharaoh's Fate -- Toward a New Poetics of Ritual Objects -- Conclusions -- Interlude -- Vowels/Calling the Archangels: An Inscription from Miletos -- A Poem Can Raise the Dead -- 3 Tongues, Breath, Stutter: 1 Corinthians and a Corinthian Curse -- Language/Tongue/Violence -- 1 Corinthians -- Speech, Voice, and Pneuma -- Stuttering and Tongues -- Voces Magicae in Roman Corinth -- Galen on Language's Hamartia -- Conclusions -- 4 Incantation: Sound and Song as Curse, Cure, and Gospel -- The Vamp -- Homer and the Lomaxes: Appropriating Songs -- Clement and the New Song -- Homeric Incantation and Julius Africanus -- ||: The Vamp :|| -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Ancient Sources -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009405737
Additional Edition:
ISBN 100940573X
Language:
English
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