Sacred Violence

African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19945801
AutoresBrent D Shaw (Princeton University, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Data de publicação2011-09-01
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoSacred Violence (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511762079
OpenAlexW4234165139
Open LibraryOL25075605M
ISBN9780511762079
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDF8ZRPTgcjrcC
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas75

One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in late antiquity, in which Augustine played a central role as Bishop of Hippo. The development and deployment of images of hatred, including that of the heretic, the pagan, and the Jew, and the modes by which these were most effectively employed, including the oral world of the sermon, were critical to promoting acts of violence. Shaw explores how the emerging ecclesiastical structures of the Christian church, on one side, and those of the Roman imperial state, on the other, interacted to repress or excite violent action. Finally, the meaning and construction of the acts themselves, including the Western idea of suicide, are shown to emerge from the conflict itself

Action (physics) · Archaeology · Epistemology · Hatred · Heresy · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Sermon · State (computer science) · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Africa · ancient · Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo · Christianity · Christians · Church history · Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 · Discrimination · Donatists · North Africa · Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 · Religious aspects · Violence · Violence, religious aspects