The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian EraThe 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. |
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... bodily suffering were so prevalent in early Christian texts. This study crosses the boundaries between ancient history and the study of early Christianity in the context of the Greco-Roman world. Perkins draws parallels with suffering ...
... bodily suffering were so prevalent in early Christian texts . This study crosses the boundaries between ancient history and the study of early Christianity in the context of the Greco - Roman world . Perkins draws parallels with ...
... bodily symptoms strikes a modern reader as rather excessive , perhaps even disgusting . This eminent orator , however , can be trusted to know what would attract his audience and engage their interest . It was his choice to represent ...
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Contents
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MARRIAGES AS HAPPY ENDINGS | 41 |
PAIN WITHOUT EFFECT | 77 |
SUFFERING AND POWER | 104 |
The Acts of Peter | 124 |
THE SICK SELF | 142 |
IDEOLOGY NOT PATHOLOGY | 173 |
The Community of Sufferers | 200 |
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The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era Judith Perkins No preview available - 1995 |