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Contested Cures - Megan Nutzman

Contested Cures

Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine

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Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0274-0 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
Studies the people, places and objects credited with ritual cures and the elite rhetoric critical of these cures
In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures argues that the inevitability of sickness and injury made people willing to experiment with seemingly beneficial techniques, even if they originated in a foreign cultural or religious tradition. With circumstances of close cultural contacts, such as prevailed in Palestine, the setting was ripe for neighbouring Jews, Samaritans, Christians, Greeks and Romans to borrow rituals perceived to be efficacious and to alter them to fit their own religious framework. As a result, they employed related means of seeking miraculous cures. The similarities of these rituals, despite changes in the identity of the divine healers that they invoked, made them the subject of polemical discourse among elite authors trying to police collective borders. Contested Cures investigates the resulting intersection of ritual healing and communal identity.This innovative study synthesises evidence for the full range of healing rituals that were practised in the ancient Mediterranean world. Examining both literary and archaeological evidence, it considers ritual healing as a component of identity formation and deconstructs the artificial boundary between 'magic' and 'religion' in relation to ritual cures.
Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity
Zusatzinfo 11 black and white illustrations, 7 black and white tables
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 1-3995-0274-3 / 1399502743
ISBN-13 978-1-3995-0274-0 / 9781399502740
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