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1 online resource (xviii. 279 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Gender, theory, and religion
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Gender, theory, and religion.
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Note |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-270) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Who's on top? : sex talk, power, and resistance -- Sexual slander and ancient invective -- Paul, the slaves of desire, the the saints of God -- Sexual vice and Christian Apologia -- The false teachers of the end time -- Illicit sex, wicked desire, and the demonized heretic. |
Summary |
Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those marked as outsiders, especially non-believers and ""heretics, "" who were said to be controlled by lust and unable to rein in their carnal desires. True or not, these charges allowed Christians to present themselves as different from and morally superior to those around them. Through caref. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Libel and slander -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
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Libel and slander -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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History. |
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Sex -- Rome.
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Libel and slander -- Rome.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966- Abandoned to lust. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 0231136625 (DLC) 2005049778 (OCoLC)60605289 |
ISBN |
0231510047 (electronic book) |
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9780231510042 (electronic book) |
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