The suffering self : pain and narrative representation in early Christian era / / Judith Perkins

• Autore: Perkins Judith <1944, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 272/.1
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-246) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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 representati
• Titolo autorizzato: The suffering self
• ISBN: 1-134-79894-6; 0-203-21006-9; 1-134-79895-4; 1-280-32437-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784094503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II