TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rotman,Youval
TI  - Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium
SN  - 9780674974432
AV  - BF51 .R64 2016eb
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Psychology and religion
KW  - Religion and sociology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue: Insanity and Religion --; Part I. Sanctified Insanity: Between History and Psychology --; 1. The Paradox That Inhabits Ambiguity --; 2. Meanings of Insanity --; Part II. Abnormality and Social Change: Early Christianity versus Rabbinic Judaism --; 3. Abnormality and Social Change: Insanity and Martyrdom --; 4. Socializing Nature: The Ascetic Totem --; Epilogue: Psychology, Religion, and Social Change --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
N2  - In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective transformation prior to the rise is Islam
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