Violence and belief in late antiquity : militant devotion in Christianity and Islam / Thomas Sizgorich.

In Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity, Thomas Sizgorich seeks to understand why and how violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of both Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries. Sizgorich argues that the cultivation of vio...

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Main Author: Sizgorich, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Series:Divinations.
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