03051oam 2200637I 450 991078409450332120230421043659.01-134-79894-60-203-21006-91-134-79895-41-280-32437-610.4324/9780203210062 (CKB)1000000000255423(EBL)179811(OCoLC)437082344(SSID)ssj0000253486(PQKBManifestationID)11209492(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000253486(PQKBWorkID)10186756(PQKB)11554215(MiAaPQ)EBC179811(Au-PeEL)EBL179811(CaPaEBR)ebr10057571(CaONFJC)MIL32437(OCoLC)50760750(EXLCZ)99100000000025542320180331d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe suffering self pain and narrative representation in early Christian era /Judith PerkinsLondon ;New York :Routledge,1995.1 online resource (262 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-12706-8 0-415-11363-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-246) and index.Front Cover; The Suffering Self; Copyright Page; Contents; Permissions; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Death as a Happy Ending; 2. Marriages as Happy Endings; 3. Pain Without Effect; 4. Suffering and Power; 5. Healing and Power: The Acts of Peter; 6. The Sick Self; 7. Ideology, Not Pathology; 8. Saints' Lives: The Community of Sufferers; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThe 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.This study crosses the boundaries between ancient history and the study of early Christianity, seeing Christian representatiSufferingReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrinesEarly church, ca. 30-600PainReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrinesEarly church, ca. 30-600Identification (Religion)HistoryTo 1500SufferingReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrinesPainReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrinesIdentification (Religion)History272/.1Perkins Judith1944,1555306MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784094503321The suffering self3817125UNINA