{"product_id":"rethinking-early-christian-identity-maia-kotrosits-9781451492651","title":"Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaia Kotrosits challenges the contemporary notion of early Christian literature, showing that a number of texts usually so describedNew Testament writings including Hebrews, Acts, the Gospel of John, Colossians, and 1 Peter, as well as the letters of Ignatius, the Gospel of Truth, and the Secret Revelation of Johnare not particularly interested in a distinctive Christian identity or self-definition. Rather, by appealing to the categories of trauma studies and diaspora theory and giving careful attention to the dynamics within each of these texts, she shows that this sample of writings offers complex reckonings with chaotic diasporic conditions and the transgenerational trauma of colonial violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe heart of her study is an inquiry into the significance contemporary readers invest in ancient writings as expressions of a coherent identity, asking, What do we need and want out of history? Kotrosits interacts with important recent work on identity and sociality in the Roman world and on the dynamics of desire in contemporary biblical scholarship as well. At last, she argues that the writings discussed made possible the rise of Christianity by effecting a forgetfulness of imperial traumaand questions the affective dimensions of contemporary empire-critical scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maia Kotrosits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1451492650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781451492651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Augsburg Fortress Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.85h x 6.98w x 0.56d","brand":"Maia Kotrosits","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986256462079,"sku":"9781451492651","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe447959-fef9-4c02-9c14-4b0eb7b99e4b.jpg?v=1683282278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rethinking-early-christian-identity-maia-kotrosits-9781451492651","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}