Why this new race : ethnic reasoning in early Christianity /
Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that has sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view and argues that ethnicity and race played a crucial role in early definitions of Christianity. In her readings of early Christian te...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2005.
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Series: | Gender, theory, and religion.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Worshipers of so-called gods, Jews, and Christians: religion in ethnoracial discourses
- We were before the foundation of the world: appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition
- We quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel: Christian claims to peoplehood
- A Genos saved by nature: Ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic
- From every race of humans: ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism.