[PDF.90bp] The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

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 | #1880964 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2007-10-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.51 x5.98l,.74 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A whacky look at the early Christian saints|By John Russell Yamamoto|I found this book very useful in my work on early modern attitudes towards suffering (Pain, Pleasure and Perversity: Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England). Burrus discusses the saints of the early Christian period, but it got me thinking about how the accounts of these saints were received in| ||"A dazzling series of readings of early Christian hagiographies that will, by turns, delight, confound, illuminate, and challenge diverse historians, theologians, and theorists."—Church History

|"Burrus's interweaving of ancient and mo

Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of interpretation, arguing that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not antierotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "countereroticism" that resists the marital, procrea...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)   |  Virginia Burrus. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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