Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature - Couverture rigide

Henning, Meghan R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300223110 ISBN 13 : 9780300223118

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2021

Synopsis

In this pioneering study, Meghan Henning illuminates how the resurrected bodies that populate hell in early Christian literature&;largely those of women, enslaved persons, and individuals with disabilities&;are punished after death in spaces that mirror real carceral spaces, effectually criminalizing those bodies on earth. Contextualizing the apocalypses alongside ancient medical texts, inscriptions, philosophy, and patristic writings, this book demonstrates the ways that Christian depictions of hell intensified and preserved ancient notions of gender and bodily normativity that continue to inform Christian identity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Meghan R. Henning is Associate Professor of Christian Origins at the University of Dayton. The author of Educating Early Christians through the Rhetoric of Hell, she lives in Dayton, OH.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300223110
• ISBN 13: 9780300223118
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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