Elaine Wainwright

Women Healing/Healing Women (eBook, PDF)

The Genderisation of Healing in Early Christianity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The impetus for this book is the realization that within early Christianity, which is characterised by healing, no women are explicitly commissioned to heal. It begins with a search for the women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period, and finding them honoured in inscriptions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351223850
• Artikelnr.: 49985410

Autorenporträt

Elaine Wainwright

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Where Theory and Practice Meet: A Way toward Transformation
2: Women Healing/Healing Women: A New Listening to Antiquity
3: Pharmaka, Magica, Hygieia: When Reality and Stereotype Meet-What Lies Beyond?
4: Telling Stories of Women Healing/Healing Women: The Gospel of Mark
5: Re-telling Stories of Women Healing/Healing Women: The Gospel of Matthew
6: Women Cured of Evil Spirits and Infirmities: The Gospel of Luke
Conclusion