Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium / Youval Rotman.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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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
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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