Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects by Virginia Burrus

Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects

Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

Virginia Burrus

208 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 fro...

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