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Scenting Salvation

Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination

by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

A study of smell in early Christian liturgy, asceticism and theology, by a historian of Syriac Christianity. Harvey discusses incense, holy oils, the fragrance of saints and the meaning of scent in religious knowledge.

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