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Peter Brown, Peter (Princeton University) Brown, Peter Robert Lamont Brown

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

English · Hardback

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Description

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
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity

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