 | Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam Subjects: Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Violence -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Martyrdom -- Christianity; Martyrdom -- Islam; Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Focusing on the shared vocabulary of images and ideas with which late ancient Christians and Muslims imagined the past, present, and future, this book seeks to understand why violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries. Thomas Sizgorich was Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. |
