Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy by Christine Shepardson (review)

• Autores: Jennifer. Barry
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 141-143
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Shepardson’s book traces the development and contested space of late antique Antioch by shifting our focus away from theological debates alone and asks us to consider physical landscape as well. [...]while Edward Soja—a geographer with whom the book begins—has recently felt some pushback from Religious Studies scholars, Shepardson’s intentional departure helpfully reorients and guides us to ask different questions when assessing topographical details that occupied many diverse thinkers. According to several ancient historians (Sozomen, Socrates, and Theodoret), the relics of the martyr were used to eclipse the authority, and tourist trade, of the temple of Apollo in the neighboring territory of Daphne. According to John, the synagogue, in particular, posed an ongoing threat to Christians precisely because it was the dwelling place of demons.