Lives of Objects - Material Culture, Experience, Real in History of Early Christianity

"Judaism and Christianity as condensed illustrations of how people across time struggle with the materiality of life and death. Speaking across many fields, including classics, history, anthropology, literary, gender, and queer studies, the book journeys through the ancient Mediterranean world by way of the myriad physical artifacts that punctuate the transnational history of early Christianity. By bringing a psychoanalytically inflected approach to bear upon her materialist studies of religious history, Kotrosits makes a contribution not only to our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, but also our sense of how different disciplines construe historical knowledge, and how we as people and thinkers understand our own relation to our material and affective past"--

About the author

Maia Kotrosits is assistant professor of religion at Denison University and author of Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging.

Product details

• Authors: Maia Kotrosits, Kotrosits Maia
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780226707440
• ISBN: 978-0-226-70744-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Class 200: New Studies in Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Judaism / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Judaism, Ancient World, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE