Violated and Transcended Bodies - Gender, Martyrdom, and Asceticism in Early Christianity

This Element covers social construction of the ideas of body and gender in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity.

List of contents

1. About Bodies, Gender, and Identity; 2. Equal Opportunity: Martyrs and Ascetics; 3. Martyrdom as Asceticism: Thecla and the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles; 4. Bodies that Save the World; Abbreviations; Bibliography.

About the author

Gail P. Streete is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. Streete is the author of Her Image of Salvation (1992), The Strange Woman (1997), and Redeemed Bodies (2009).

Summary

This Element covers social construction of the ideas of body and gender in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity, Martyrdom and asceticism as Christian performances that overcome human limitations, and analyses the relationship of gender to status in martyrologies, hagiographies, and apocryphal early Christian literature.

Product details

• Authors: Gail P Streete, Gail P. Streete, Gail P. (Rhodes College Streete
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781009054157
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0905415-7
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Religion and Viole; Elements in Religion and Violence
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / General, Religion: general, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, Religion and beliefs, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, RELIGION / Christian Living / Family & Relationships, Christian aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships