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Author_Christine Shepardson
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Chalcedon council
Christian devotion
Christian heresy
Christian history
Christian sects
christianity
church persecution
church schism
church survival
early Christianity
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faith radicalization
Middle East faith
religious conflict
religious minorities
religious struggles
Syriac church
Product details
- ISBN 9780520413535
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 2025
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Through the fifth and sixth centuries, major divisions rocked Christianity as different factions vied to make their teachings the doctrine of the Roman Empire’s imperial church. In the aftermath of the Council of Chalcedon in 451, miaphysite Christians, often targeted as heretics by the imperial church, confronted periodic violence and persecution. In this book, Christine Shepardson reshapes our understanding of late antiquity by centering Syriac Christianity in these complex and politicized doctrinal conflicts. Drawing on critical studies of violence and memory, she traces narratives of resistance and other rhetorical strategies by which miaphysite leaders radicalized their followers to endure physical deprivation and harm rather than abandon their church community.
Christine Shepardson is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is author of Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy and Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria.
