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

by Judith Perkins

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415127068

ISBN13:9780415127066

Release Date:July 1995

Publisher:Routledge

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.88 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Related Subjects

Christian Books & Bibles Church History Education & Reference History Religion Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies

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