Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature
Author:   Shaily Shashikant Patel (Virginia Tech)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   75
Publication Date:   31 July 2025
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Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature


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Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature is a genealogical study of two parallel, but not coequal discursive trajectories: of 'magic' and of 'heresy.' This longue durée analysis charts how these two discursive streams intersect in myriad ways, for myriad ends, across the first four centuries of selected Christian literature. Magic and Heresy attempts to answer in part the question: when and how did early Christian authors start thinking of magic as heresy – that is, as a religious and epistemic system wholly external to their own orthodoxies? Prompted by metacritical concerns about the relationship between magic and heresy, as well as these categories' roles in erecting and maintaining Christian empire, this Element seeks to disrupt tidy conceptual conflations of magic-heresy constructed by ancient authors and replicated in some modern scholarship. Magic and Heresy excavates the cycles of discursive disciplining that eventually resulted in these very conflations.

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Author:   Shaily Shashikant Patel (Virginia Tech)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009331661


ISBN 10:   1009331663
Pages:   75
Publication Date:   31 July 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available, will be POD   Availability explained
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1. Introduction: imperial orthodoxy and its enduring episteme: toward an undisciplined historiography; 2. From Christ beliefs to Christianity: the first century; 3. The long shadow of emergent heresiology: the second century; 4. Between ascendant orthodoxy and empire: the third century; 5. Totalizing epistemologies and imperial orthodoxy: the fourth century; 6. Coda: orthodoxies, empires, and an episteme; References.

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