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.

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

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).

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Gail P Streete, Gail P. Streete, Gail P. (Rhodes College Streete
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781009054157
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0905415-7
• Pages: 75
• Thèmes: Elements in Religion and Viole; Elements in Religion and Violence
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Autres religions; 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