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Martyrdom and Memory Early Christian Culture Making

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ISBN-10: 0231129874

ISBN-13: 9780231129879

Edition: 2007

Authors: Elizabeth Castelli

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Martyrs are produced, Elizabeth Castelli suggests, not by the lived experience of particular historical individuals but by the stories that are later told about them. And the formulaic character of stories about past suffering paradoxically serves specific theological, cultural, or political ends in the present. Martyrdom and Memoryexplores the central role of persecution in the early development of Christian ideas, institutions, and cultural forms and shows how the legacy of Christian martyrdom plays out in today's world. In the pre-Constantinian imperial period, the conflict between Roman imperial powers and the subject Christian population hinged on competing interpretations of power,…    
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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Elizabeth A. Castelli is associate professor of religion at Barnard College at Columbia University. She is the author of Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power,coauthor of The Postmodern Bible,and editor of several books, including Women, Gender, and Religion: A Reader.She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religionand is the editor of a new journal, Postscripts: Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds.In 2003 and 2004 she was the senior research scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University.

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