Women Healing/Healing Women - The Genderisation of Healing in Early Christianity (Paperback)

The impetus for this book was the startling realization that within early Christianity, which is characterised by healing, no women are explicitly commissioned to heal. The work begins with a search for the women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period, finding them honored in inscriptions, named by medical writers, and stereotyped by playwrights and other literateurs. What emerges, therefore, by the first century of the Common Era, is a world in which women functioned as healers as well as healed and that healing was a site of contestation in relation to gender. The interpretive lens brought to bear on the wide range of sources used in this study is a multi-dimensional one informed by feminism, post-colonialism and ecological studies.

General

Imprint:	Equinox Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Elaine Wainwright
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-1-84553-135-5
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Early Church Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Early Church Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health Books > Christianity > Early Church
LSN:	1-84553-135-3
Barcode:	9781845531355

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