Abandoned to lust : sexual slander and ancient Christianity /
Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those mark...
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| বিন্যাস: | Licensed eBooks |
| ভাষা: | ইংরেজি |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2006.
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| মালা: | Gender, theory, and religion.
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/knus13662 |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those marked as outsiders, especially non-believers and ""heretics, "" who were said to be controlled by lust and unable to rein in their carnal desires. True or not, these charges allowed Christians to present themselves as different from and morally superior to those around them. Through caref |
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| উপাদানের বিবরণ: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001. |
| দৈহিক বর্ননা: | 1 online resource (xviii. 279 pages) |
| গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জী: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-270) and index. |
| আইসবিএন: | 0231510047 9780231510042 9786613627971 6613627976 0231136625 9780231136624 |