Description
| Product ID: | 9780231144070 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Body and Society |
| Subtitle: | Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Brown |
| Page Count: | 568 |
| Subjects: | Christianity, The Early Church, Christianity, Sociology, Christian social thought & activity, Sociology: sexual relations |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped the uneven relationships between men and women. |
| Imprint Name: | Columbia University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Columbia University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-07-03 |