The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era

by Judith Perkins

Book Overview

The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415127068
• ISBN13: 9780415127066
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"