Grotesque Body in Early Christian Discourse
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ancient body iconography
Apocryphal Acts
ApPl Point
Author_Istvan Czachesz
Bizarre Items
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cognitive religious studies
Cuckoo's Nest
Cuckoo’s Nest
Danse Macabre
Deviance Labeling
early christian anthropology
Early Christian Discourse
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Ethiopic Text
Ezekiel 17
Fairy Tales
Flute Player
Graeco Roman Literature
Graeco Roman Sources
Grotesque Body
grotesque embodiment in christian texts
Large Family
Latin Recension
Lot's Wife
Lot’s Wife
Minimally Counterintuitive
Ontological Expectations
Parallelismus Membrorum
religious demonology
ritual humiliation
Scatological Humor
Self-organized Criticality
Status Degradation Ritual
transformation narratives
Wild Asses
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781845538866
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Christian literature was shaped by the discourse around and imagery of the human body. This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and visceral morality was produced and refined from the very start of Christian history. The sources range across Greek comedy, Roman and Jewish demonology, and metamorphosis traditions. The study reveals how these images originated, were adopted, and were shaped to the service of a doctrinally and psychologically persuasive Christian message.
István Czachesz is Adjunct Professor of Protestant Theology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
