Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium : : The Ambiguity of Religious Experience / / Youval Rotman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• VerfasserIn: Rotman, Youval,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue: Insanity and Religion --; Part I. Sanctified Insanity: Between History and Psychology --; 1. The Paradox That Inhabits Ambiguity --; 2. Meanings of Insanity --; Part II. Abnormality and Social Change: Early Christianity versus Rabbinic Judaism --; 3. Abnormality and Social Change: Insanity and Martyrdom --; 4. Socializing Nature: The Ascetic Totem --; Epilogue: Psychology, Religion, and Social Change --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674974432; 9783110485103; 9783110485394; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674974432
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Youval Rotman.

In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective transformation prior to the rise is Islam.