Suffering Self Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era

Name: Suffering Self Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era
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ISBN: 9780415127066

ISBN-10: 0415127068

ISBN-13: 9780415127066

Edition: 1996

Authors: Judith Perkins

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The Suffering Selfis 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 representation in the context of the Greco-Roman world. She draws parallels with suffering heroines in Greek novels and in…

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/28/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.69" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



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Acknowledgements


Introduction



Death as a Happy Ending



Marriages as Happy Endings



Pain Without Effect



Suffering and Power



Healing and Power: The Acts of Peter



The Sick Self



Ideology, Not Pathology



Saints' Lives: The Community of Sufferers


Notes


Bibliography


Index