Saving Shame : Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects /

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"Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based, and thus in the emerge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burrus, Virginia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Fornkyrkan.
Skamkänslor > religiösa aspekter > kristendom > historia.
Scham.
Christentum.
Christentum > Scham.
Scham > Christentum.
Schaamte.
Scham
Christentum
Shame > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Humiliation.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Outing shame
  • Shameless witnesses
  • An embarrassment of flesh
  • The desire and pursuit of humiliation
  • Shameful confessions
  • Afterword: Shame, politics, love.

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