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Violated and Transcended Bodies: Gender, Martyrdom, and Asceticism in Early Christianity - Elements in Religion and Violence Streete, Gail P. (Rhodes College, Memphis)
Violated and Transcended Bodies: Gender, Martyrdom, and Asceticism in Early Christianity - Elements in Religion and Violence
Streete, Gail P. (Rhodes College, Memphis)
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.
75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 3, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9781009054157 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 78 |
| Dimensions | 176 × 125 × 9 mm · 82 g |
| Language | English |