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Brown Peter: Telo i društvo

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  • Author: Brown Peter
  • Publisher: Clio
  • Availability: Available
  • Condition: Nova knjiga
  • Code: 42914

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Brown Peter

Summary

Peter Brown: Body and Society

First published in 1988, the book "Body and Society" is a revolutionary work of cultural and social history of the early Middle Ages. It is a subtle study of marriage and sexuality of the early Christians of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. Trying to penetrate into the structures of mentality and understanding about the fundamental questions that the individual, as well as the social community, asked themselves, Peter Brown investigates how Christianity shaped everyday life, the ways in which it imposed the practice of sexual renunciation - abstinence, celibacy and lifelong virginity. Finally, it tries to penetrate the connections between the experience of the body in Christian circles and the different social structures dominant in society during the first five centuries of Christianity.

"Body and Society" examines how theological views on sexuality and the body at the same time reflect and shape the relationships between men and women, the Roman aristocracy and slaves, married people and those who are celibate. Based on a subtle historical analysis of the most important writers of early Christianity, Brown's research provides us with a new picture of asceticism and its role in society, as well as movements crucial to the spiritual formation of the individual, such as martyrdom and prophetic practice, Gnostic spiritual leadership. Brown's book leads us to the explanation of many phenomena in society and in the lap of the church itself, such as promiscuity or the understanding of marriage in different areas of the Mediterranean world

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Additional information

  • Author: Brown Peter
  • Publisher: Clio
  • Year of publication:2012
  • Place of publication:Beograd
  • Pages:574
  • Dimensions:17x24 cm
  • Script:Ćirilica
  • Condition:Nova knjiga
  • Binding:Tvrdi s ovitkom

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