Suffering Self : Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era.

Explores how Christian narrative representation in the early Empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the self as sufferer - and why forms of suffering such as martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perkins, Judith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 1995.
Temas:
To 1500
Suffering > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Pain > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Identification (Religion) > History > To 1500.
Identification (Religion)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Permissions; Acknowledgements; Introduction; DEATH AS A HAPPY ENDING; MARRIAGES AS HAPPY ENDINGS; PAIN WITHOUT EFFECT; SUFFERING AND POWER; HEALING AND POWER: The Acts of Peter; THE SICK SELF; IDEOLOGY, NOT PATHOLOGY; SAINTS' LIVES: The Community of Sufferers; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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