Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making

Elizabeth Castelli

Paper, 360 pages, 3 photographs
ISBN: 978-0-231-12987-9
$25.50 / £15.00

November, 2004
Cloth, 360 pages, 3 photographs
ISBN: 978-0-231-12986-2
$75.00 / £44.00

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Related Subjects

• Christianity

Series

• Gender, Theory, and Religion

About the Author

Elizabeth A. Castelli is associate professor of religion at Barnard College at Columbia University. She is the author of Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power, coauthor of The Postmodern Bible, and editor of several books, including Women, Gender, and Religion: A Reader. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and is the editor of a new journal, Postscripts: Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds. In 2003 and 2004 she was the senior research scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University.

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