Saving shame : martyrs, saints, and other abject subjects /
"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 emerge...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008
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Series: | Divinations.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |