Gebet, Exorzismus und Magie: die kirchliche Konstruktion legitimer und illegitimer Rituale am Beispiel der Cyprianlegende
The early Christian church considered magic to be pagan; thus, any individual wanting to join the church was required to avoid magical rituals. At the same time, the church created its own rituals by adapting and transforming forms of magical rituals and presenting them under the garb of Christianit...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | German |
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Aschendorff
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Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum
Year: 2021, Volume: 64/65, Pages: 52-74 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Conversio Justinae et Cypriani
/ Paganism
/ Magic
/ Ritual
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CD Christianity and Culture KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KCD Hagiography; saints |
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| Summary: | The early Christian church considered magic to be pagan; thus, any individual wanting to join the church was required to avoid magical rituals. At the same time, the church created its own rituals by adapting and transforming forms of magical rituals and presenting them under the garb of Christianity. This process was accompanied by an artificial separation of rituals into legitimate and illegitimate ones, although this demarcation is not always clear today. This paper examines this construction of legitimate and illegitimate rituals on the basis of the legend of Cyprian to elucidate the gray areas between prayer, exorcism, and magic in Late Antiquity. The survival of amulets and exorcisms in Christian times clearly indicates that the ban on magic did not succeed. |
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| Item Description: | Im Web unter : "https://doi.org/10.17438/978-3-402-10724-9" |
| ISSN: | 0075-2541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17438/978-3-402-10724-9 |