Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus (Class 200: New Studies in Religion) by Virginia BurrusRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3 MBOverview: Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography. In Jerome’s Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century saint briefly encounters the ruins of an earthquake-toppled city and a haunted garden […]
The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography by Virginia BurrusRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.15MBOverview: Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a […]
Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects by Virginia BurrusRequirements: .ePUB reader, 17 MBOverview: 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 Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography by Virginia BurrusRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 2.9 MBOverview: Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus […]
The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography by Virginia BurrusRequirements: PDF Reader 12 MBOverview: Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues […]