Body and Society - Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

Zusammenfassung Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence! celibacy! and life-long virginity - in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped the uneven relationships between men and women.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Brown, Peter (Princeton University) Brown, Peter Robert Lamont Brown
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.2008
• EAN: 9780231144063
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14406-3
• No. of pages: 568
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Columbia Classics in Religion; Columbia Classics in Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Christianity, History of Religion, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, The Early Church, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, Christian social thought & activity