Acknowledgments |
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Abbreviations |
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Introduction |
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1 | (10) |
1. The Olfactory Context: Smelling the Early Christian World |
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11 | (46) |
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11 | (10) |
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Sacrifice: The Aroma of Relation |
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21 | (9) |
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Daily Smells: Powers and Promises |
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30 | (16) |
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God's Perfume: Imagined Glory and the Scent of Life |
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46 | (11) |
2. The Christian Body: Ritually Fashioned Experience |
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57 | (42) |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (6) |
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Participatory Knowing: Ritual Scents and Devotional Uses |
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65 | (18) |
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Participatory Knowing: Scents and Sense |
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83 | (7) |
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Excursus: Incense Offerings in the Syriac Transitus Mariae |
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90 | (9) |
3. Olfaction and Christian Knowing |
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99 | (57) |
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Sense Perception in the Ancient Mind |
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100 | (5) |
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Christian Senses in a Christian World |
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105 | (9) |
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Olfactory Analogies as Theological Tools |
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114 | (11) |
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Revelatory Scents: Olfaction and Identity |
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125 | (9) |
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Remembering Knowledge: Liturgical Commentaries |
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134 | (14) |
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Excursus: On the Sinful Woman in Syriac Tradition |
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148 | (8) |
4. Redeeming Scents: Ascetic Models |
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156 | (45) |
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The Smell of Danger: Marking Sensory Contexts |
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158 | (4) |
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The Fragrance of Virtue: Reordering Olfactory Experience |
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162 | (7) |
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The Spiritual Senses: Relocating Perception |
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169 | (12) |
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Ascetic Practice and Embodied Liturgy |
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181 | (5) |
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186 | (11) |
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A Syriac Tradition Continued |
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197 | (4) |
5. Sanctity and Stench |
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201 | (21) |
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Ascetic Stench: Sensation and Dissonance |
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201 | (5) |
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Stench and Morality: Mortality and Sin |
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206 | (4) |
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210 | (3) |
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Asceticism: Holy Stench, Holy Weapon |
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213 | (9) |
6. Resurrection, Sensation, and Knowledge |
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222 | (19) |
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222 | (7) |
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229 | (12) |
Notes |
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Bibliography |
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Index of Biblical Citations |
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389 | (8) |
General Index |
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