The Holy Family and Its Legacy

Albrecht Koschorke

October, 2003
Cloth, 216 pages, 25 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12756-1
$38.00 / £22.50

Preface to the American Edition

Part I Dispositions

1. Around the Year Zero

2. Faith and Code

3. Positions I: Jesus and His Fathers

4. Positions II: Mary and the Trinity

5. From the Jewish Birth Family to the Christian Destination Family

6. The Man Joseph and Monotheistic Religion

7. The Inimitable Model

8. Combinatorics I: The Mother-Son Axis

9. Combinatorics II: The Sacred Marriage

10. Combinatorics III: The Father-Son Axis

11. The Dissolution of Distinctions

Part II Theories

12. The Family Novel of Religions

13. Beyond Gender

14. The Question of Power

Part III Consequences

15. Christianity: On the Road to Becoming the Religion of the Empire

16. The Church's Marriage Policy in the Middle Ages

17. The Protestant Holy Family

18. The Return of Joseph

19. Joseph, Abelard, Saint-Preux

20. Holy Family, Bourgeois Family

21. Christ and Oedipus: Freud's Coup

22. Remnant Families in the Welfare State

23. Theology and Family in George Lucas's Star Wars

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Christianity

About the Author

Albrecht Koschorke is professor of German at the University of Konstanz and is a project director at the Research Center for Literary Studies in Berlin. He has published four previous books in German, including Die Geschichte des Horizonts and Körperströme und Schriftverkehr.

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