Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Virginia BurrusSeries:Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient ReligionPublish date:2018-11-23Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812250794ISBN-10:812250796UPC:9780812250794Book Category:Religion, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Christianity, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:History, ReligionSize:9.10 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SC35T94E8H
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 from the familiar specter of Christianity's human-centered theology of dominion, Burrus directs our attention to aspects of ancient Christian thought and practice that remain strange and alien. Drawn...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812250794ISBN-10:812250796UPC:9780812250794Book Category:Religion, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Christianity, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:History, ReligionSize:9.10 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SC35T94E8H
Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. She is author of Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects and The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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