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Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination Volume 42 Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Susan Ashbrook Harvey
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"Susan Ashbrook Harvey has surely produced the definitive analysis of the role of scent in Early Christian ritual and theological discourse. This is a welcome new trajectory in the study of religion and the body."--Patricia Cox Miller, author of The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography
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- Title Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination Volume 42
- Author Susan Ashbrook Harvey
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 442
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2006-06-07
- ISBN 9780520241473 / 0520241479
- Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.7 x 1.33 in (23.62 x 17.02 x 3.38 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Worship, Odors
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005013451
- Dewey Decimal Code 248.2
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- Books & Culture, 05/01/2007, Page 11
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University of California Press, 2006 8vo (23.5 cm), XVIII, 422 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first - seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing devotional piety, in which the bodily senses were utilized as crucial instruments of human-divine interaction. Rich olfactory practices developed as part of this shift, with lavish uses of incense, holy oils, and other sacred scents. At the same time, Christians showed profound interest in what smells could mean. How could the experience of smell be construed in revelatory terms? What specifically could it convey? How and what could be known through smell? Scenting Salvation argues that ancient Christians used olfactory experience for purposes of a distinctive religious epistemology:…
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