Holy Feast and Holy Fast

Autori

• Caroline Walker Bynum

Parametri

• 300 pagine
• 11 ore di lettura

• Cristianesimo
• Esoterismo e religione
• Religione
• Saggistica
• Storia

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Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1988

(In brossura)