Lander Shira (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In stock ready to dispatch from the UK.

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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Edition. Dark blue hardback in nearly new condition: firm and square with bright gilt lettering. Complete with original dustjacket, neat and sharp, not showing any scuffs, tears or chips. Contents crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Looks and feels unread. Thus a very nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred space between practitioners of traditional Roman religion, Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. By analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence, Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space. This regard for ritual sites above other locations rendered the act or mere suggestion of seizing and destroying them powerful weapons in inter-group religious conflicts. Lander demonstrates that the quantity and harshness of discursive and physical attacks on ritual spaces directly correlates to their symbolic value. This heightened valuation reached such a level that rivals were willing to violate conventional Roman norms of property rights to display spatial control. Moreover, Roman Imperial policy eventually appropriated spatial triumphalism as a strategy for negotiating religious conflicts, giving rise to a new form of spatial colonialism that was explicitly religious.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 248 pages. 9.49x6.13x0.99 inches. In Stock.