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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2006.
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| Series: | Gender, theory, and religion.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/knus13662 |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii. 279 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-270) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231510047 9780231510042 9786613627971 6613627976 0231136625 9780231136624 |