Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience

Prologue. Insanity and religion -- Part I. Sanctified insanity: between history and psychology -- The paradox that inhabits ambiguity -- Meanings of insanity -- Part II. Abnormality and social change: early Christianity vs. rabbinic Judaism -- Abnormality and social change -- Socializing nature: the ascetic totem -- Epilogue. Psychology, religion, and social change

• | Author: Youval Rotman
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: September 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674057619
• | ISBN-13: 9780674057616