Prejudice and Christian beginnings: investigating race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christian studies

Introduction -- Exploring the intersections of race, gender, status and ethnicity in early Christian studies / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Part I: Race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christianity : theorizing the field of inquiry -- Be not afraid of the dark : critical race theory and classical...

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Contributors: Nasrallah, Laura Salah 1969- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Minneapolis, Minn. Fortress Press 2009
In:Year: 2009
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Church / Sexual identity / Ethnic identity / Ethnic identity
B Sexual identity / Ethnic identity / Ethnic identity / Christianity / History 30-600
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
NCF Sexual ethics
Further subjects:B Church History Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
B Discrimination Religious aspects Christianity
B Sexism Religious aspects Christianity
B Conference program 2007 (Cambridge, Mass)
B Racism Religious aspects Christianity
B Ethnocentrism
B Prejudices History
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Summary:Introduction -- Exploring the intersections of race, gender, status and ethnicity in early Christian studies / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Part I: Race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christianity : theorizing the field of inquiry -- Be not afraid of the dark : critical race theory and classical studies / Shelley P. Haley -- Ethnicity, gender, and desire : the Knidian Aphrodite in the Roman Empire and Hiram Powers's Greek slave / Laura Nasrallah -- From every nation under heaven : Jewish ethnicities in the Greco-Roman world / Cynthia M. Baker -- Mimicry and colonial differences : gender, ethnicity, and empire in the interpretation of Pauline imitation / Joseph Marchal -- To the Jew first and also to the Greek reading Romans as ethnic construction / Sze-kar Wan -- Part II: Race, gender, and ethnicity : shaping the discipline of early Christian studies -- God's own people : specters of race, ethnicity, and gender in early Christian studies / Denise Kimber Buell -- Race, aesthetics, and gospel scholarship : embracing and subverting the aesthetic ideology / Shawn Kelley -- Race as incarnational theology : affinities between German Protestantism and racial theory / Susannah Heschel -- Religion, ethnicity, and ethno-religion : trajectories of a discourse in German-speaking historical Jesus scholarship / Gabriella Gelardini -- No modern Joshua ... nationalization, Scriptures, and race / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Poetics of minority biblical criticism : identification and theorization / Fernando F. Segovia
Item Description:Discussions of a small symposium held at Harvard University Divinity School in spring 2007
ISBN:0800663403