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The Body and Society
The Body and Society
Author: Peter Brown
In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practice of permanent sexual renunciation--continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity--that developed in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. Brown vividly describes the early Christians and their strange, disturbing preoccupations. He follows in detail the reflection an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231061018
ISBN-10: 0231061013
Publication Date: 4/15/1988
Pages: 504
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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