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    Saving Shame
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    Saving Shame

    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...
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    The Sex Lives of Saints
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    The Sex Lives of Saints

    "Brilliant and important. . . . From page one she challenges approaches to hagiography that dismiss ascetic desire as the sublimation of sexuality and a pathological hatred of the body."--Theological...
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    Ancient Christian Ecopoetics
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    Ancient Christian Ecopoetics

    In our age of ecological crisis, what insights-if any-can we expect to find by looking to our past? Perhaps, suggests Virginia Burrus, early Christianity might yield usable insights. Turning aside...
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  • The Making of a Heretic
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    The Making of a Heretic

    Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts,...
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  • The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies
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    The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies

    The essays in this provocative collection exemplify the innovations that have characterized the relatively new field of late ancient studies. Focused on civilizations clustered mainly around the...
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    Seducing Augustine
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    Seducing Augustine

    Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt...
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