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 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2006.
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Schriftenreihe: | Gender, theory, and religion.
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Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/knus13662 |