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Author:   David Brakke
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.614kg
ISBN:  

9780674018754

ISBN 10:   0674018753
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   30 January 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

* Part One: The Monk in Combat *1. The Single One: The Monk against the Demons *2. The New Martyr and Holy Man: Athanasius of Alexandria's Life of Antony *3. The Gnostic: Evagrius Ponticus *4. The Vigilant Brother: Pachomius and the Pachomian Koinonia *5. The Prophet: Shenoute and the White Monastery * Part Two: War Stories *6. The Holy and Great Fathers : Monks, Demons, and Storytelling *7. Ethiopian Demons: The Monastic Self and the Diabolical Other *8. Manly Women, Female Demons, and Other Amazing Sights: Gender in Combat *9. From Gods to Demons: Making Monks, Making Christians * Afterword: The Inner Battle * Abbreviations * Notes * Selected Bibliography * Index

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The implications of this work reverberate well past the monk's cell in the Egyptian desert...[Brakke]'s use of psychoanalytic concepts to explicate the narrative of monk-demon encounter, reminiscent of D. Elliott's brilliant Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia, 1999), along with his magisterial use of intellectual history and cultural studies, reveals an innovative interdisciplinary methodology that should serve as a model for scholars of the history of religion in the twenty-first century.--Dennis P. Quinn Religious Studies Review (07/01/2007)

David Brakke's Demons and the Making of the Monk ...is a very sharply focused study of spiritual combat between monks and demons in fourth- and early fifth-century Egypt. Satan takes a back seat in this story: Brakke concentrates instead on the emergence of the monastic project ('The monk is now such a familiar figure that it is difficult to remember that he did not always exist'), and examines how conflict with demons was essential to the formation of this freshly minted religious identity...The book comes to life...in the second half, which is devoted to analysis of the monks' graphic stories about their encounters with demons. -- Alastair Sooke Times Literary Supplement

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David Brakke is Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and Professor of History, Ohio State University.

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