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The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity; Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction (Columbia Classics in Religion)
The Body and Society Men Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction - Columbia Classics in Religion
Author: Peter Brown
First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231144063
ISBN-10: 0231144067
Publication Date: 6/13/2008
Pages: 568
Edition: 2nd
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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