Ritual Boundaries

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Starting from late antique amulets and grimoires, Joseph Sanzo demonstrates that both theologians and the Christian non-elite maintained clearcut religious boundaries with those of other faiths. This insight refutes the current view of Christians living amicably alongside their non-Christians neighbors, forcing us to completely rethink how we approach religion in late antiquity. A truly revolutionary book!"—Jan N. Bremmer, author of Maidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity "Ritual Boundaries is a deeply stimulating work that examines how our material evidence regarding magic challenges and destabilizes scholarly assumptions and hypotheses about Mediterranean religion in late antiquity. A poignant exercise in the reading of objects, this book takes up familiar words and images and reveals the remarkable—and surprising—lives they ‘lived’ in ancient Egyptian Christian practice."—Dylan M. Burns, author of Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism