Insanity and sanctity in Byzantium: the ambiguity of religious experience/
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue. Insanity and religion
- Part I. Sanctified insanity: between history and psychology
- The paradox that inhabits ambiguity
- Meanings of insanity
- Part II. Abnormality and social change: early Christianity vs. rabbinic Judaism
- Abnormality and social change
- Socializing nature: the ascetic totem
- Epilogue. Psychology, religion, and social change.