Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making

by Elizabeth A. Castelli

Book Overview

Martyrs are produced, Elizabeth Castelli suggests, not by the lived experience of particular historical individuals but by the stories that are later told about them. And the formulaic character of stories about past suffering paradoxically serves specific theological, cultural, or political ends in the present. Martyrdom and Memory explores the central role of persecution in the early development of Christian ideas, institutions, and cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231129874
• ISBN13: 9780231129879
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"