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Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making
Elizabeth Castelli
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Description for Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making
Hardback. Suggests that Martyrs are produced, not by lived experience of particular historical individuals but by the stories that are later told about them. This work explores 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 the world. Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion. Num Pages: 360 pages, 3 photographs. BIC Classification: HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 171 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
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 Memory explores 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, ... Read more
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 Memory explores 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Gender, Theory, and Religion
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231129862
SKU
V9780231129862
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About Elizabeth Castelli
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 Religion and is the ... Read more
Reviews for Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making
Castelli has written a masterful book about the way early Christians used martyrdom to construct a collective memory of religious suffering. Choice Castelli succeeds brilliantly in her aim to reveal the way martyrdom constructed a new ideology... that subverted Roman notions.
Kimberly B. Stratton Biblical Theology Bulletin A required reading for anyone who studies and teaches on this problem ... Read more
Kimberly B. Stratton Biblical Theology Bulletin A required reading for anyone who studies and teaches on this problem ... Read more