The lives of objects: material culture, experience, and the real in the history of early Christianity

"Judaism and Christianity as condensed illustrations of how people across time struggle with the materiality of life and death. Speaking across many fields, including classics, history, anthropology, literary, gender, and queer studies, the book journeys through the ancient Mediterranean world...

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Main Author: Kotrosits, Maia ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London The University of Chicago Press [2020]
Series:Class 200 : new studies in religion
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"Judaism and Christianity as condensed illustrations of how people across time struggle with the materiality of life and death. Speaking across many fields, including classics, history, anthropology, literary, gender, and queer studies, the book journeys through the ancient Mediterranean world by way of the myriad physical artifacts that punctuate the transnational history of early Christianity. By bringing a psychoanalytically inflected approach to bear upon her materialist studies of religious history, Kotrosits makes a contribution not only to our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, but also our sense of how different disciplines construe historical knowledge, and how we as people and thinkers understand our own relation to our material and affective past"--
Physical Description:243 Seiten
ISBN:9780226707587
9780226707440
022670758X

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