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Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
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This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing devotional piety, in which the bodily senses were utilized as crucial instrum
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Hardcover, 442 pages
Published
June 7th 2006
by University of California Press
(first published May 8th 2006)
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