Spatial Imagination, Embedded Female Agency, and Women’s Networks in Early Christianity

Using spatial and intersectional analysis as well as theory dedicated to embedded gender agency, this article argues that the religious identities of female Christians were dynamic and pluriform not static and singular. These tools help to identify the ways in which one or more aspects of simultaneo...

Descrizione completa

Salvato in:  
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autore principale: Maier, Harry O. 1959- (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
Verificare la disponibilità: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Pubblicazione: 2024
In: Religion & gender
Anno: 2024, Volume: 14, Fascicolo: 1/2, Pagine: 129-147
(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B Bibel. Timotheusbrief 1. / Acta Pauli. Acta Pauli et Theclae / Scritto polemico / Cristianesimo delle origini / Donna cristiana (Motivo) / Competenza / Social network / Gender / Storia 1-300
Notazioni IxTheo:AD Sociologia delle religioni
CD Cristianesimo; cultura
CH Cristianesimo e società
HC Nuovo Testamento
KAB Cristianesimo delle origini
NBE Antropologia
NCC Etica sociale
TB Antichità classica
Altre parole chiave:B Early Christian women
B Spatiality
B Social Networks
B embedded agency
B Intersectionality
B gender performativity
Accesso online: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Descrizione
Riepilogo:Using spatial and intersectional analysis as well as theory dedicated to embedded gender agency, this article argues that the religious identities of female Christians were dynamic and pluriform not static and singular. These tools help to identify the ways in which one or more aspects of simultaneously co-existing female gendered identities became salient in different situations, through specific social practices. Documents for analysis include references to urban women in Pauline literature with special attention to widows/single women in 1 Timothy, ascetical women rejecting marriage as represented by the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla, and the representations of female Christ followers and the gendering of Christianity by first and second century Greek and Roman polemicists/magistrates against Christ religion (Celsus, Lucian, Caecilius, Pliny).
ISSN:1878-5417
Comprende:Enthalten in: Religion & gender
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01401002