‘Tears flowed from his eyes unceasingly’: weeping and total devotion in Egypt in late antiquity
The article discusses the practice of weeping in Pachomian monasticism as a performance of absolute devotion. Theories about radical religion and approaches to emotions are used as a theoretical lens. Pachomian sources show a religious society in the making. Its emotional practices, including weepin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2023
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| In: |
Religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 116-134 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt (Antiquity)
/ Monastery
/ Cenobitic monasticism
/ Crying
/ Devotion
/ Religious practice
/ Hierarchy
/ History 320-400
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBL Near East and North Africa KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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emotional communities
B total devotion B Weeping B emotional regime B emotional practices B Pachomian monasticism |
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