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The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era

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|| |"The sweep of Perkins's assemblage of ancient texts, and especially her apparent willingness to read across apparent religious and genre boundaries, puts her in good company ... [B]y highlighting the roles of healing and charity ... Perkins not only helps us t

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.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era   |  Judith Perkins. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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