Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination Volume 42 (Paperback)

Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. The Olfactory Context: Smelling the Early Christian World
A Martyr’s Scent
Sacrifice: The Aroma of Relation
Daily Smells: Powers and Promises
God’s Perfume: Imagined Glory and the Scent of Life

2. The Christian Body: Ritually Fashioned Experience
A New Place
A Revelatory World
Participatory Knowing: Ritual Scents and Devotional Uses
Participatory Knowing: Scents and Sense
Excursus: Incense Offerings in the Syriac Transitus Mariae

3. Olfaction and Christian Knowing
Sense Perception in the Ancient Mind
Christian Senses in a Christian World
Olfactory Analogies as Theological Tools
Revelatory Scents: Olfaction and Identity
Remembering Knowledge: Liturgical Commentaries
Excursus: On the Sinful Woman in Syriac Tradition

4. Redeeming Scents: Ascetic Models
The Smell of Danger: Marking Sensory Contexts
The Fragrance of Virtue: Reordering Olfactory Experience
The Spiritual Senses: Relocating Perception
Ascetic Practice and Embodied Liturgy
The Stylite’s Model
A Syriac Tradition Continued

5. Sanctity and Stench
Ascetic Stench: Sensation and Dissonance
Stench and Morality: Mortality and Sin
Ascetic Senses
Asceticism: Holy Stench, Holy Weapon

6. Resurrection, Sensation, and Knowledge
Bodily Expectation
Salvific Knowing

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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