Fordham University            The Jesuit University of New York
 


Ashley Marie Purpura

apurpura@fordham.edu


M.T.S. - Harvard Divinity School
B.A. - Florida State University











Research Interests
  • History of Christian thought in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine/Medieval Periods, especially in
    the Greek and Syriac traditions

  • Historical development and spiritualized interpretation of ecclesiastical hierarchies, stratified
    ritual/social orders, and models of spiritual authority in Eastern Christian thought and practice

  • Genres of religious praxis including hymnography, hagiography, liturgy/ritual, asceticism, and
    mysticism

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