Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making by Elizabeth A. Castelli

Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making

Elizabeth A. Castelli

335 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction religion informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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