UID:
edocfu_9959227345502883
Format:
1 online resource (262 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-79894-6
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0-203-21006-9
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1-134-79895-4
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1-280-32437-6
Content:
The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to early Christians.This study crosses the boundaries between ancient history and the study of early Christianity, seeing Christian representati
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; The Suffering Self; Copyright Page; Contents; Permissions; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Death as a Happy Ending; 2. Marriages as Happy Endings; 3. Pain Without Effect; 4. Suffering and Power; 5. Healing and Power: The Acts of Peter; 6. The Sick Self; 7. Ideology, Not Pathology; 8. Saints' Lives: The Community of Sufferers; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-12706-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-11363-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203210062
