Saving Shame : : Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects / / Virginia Burrus.
Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based and, thus, in the emergence o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: My Shame
- Introduction: Outing Shame
- Chapter 1. Shameless Witnesses
- Chapter 2. An Embarrassment of Flesh
- Chapter 3. The Desire and Pursuit of Humiliation
- Chapter 4. Shameful Confessions
- Afterword: Shame, Politics, Love
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments