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

ISBN: 0415127068

ISBN13: 9780415127066

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

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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...

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