Product Description: Was bedeutet es, eine andere Person nachzuahmen? Welche sozialen Beziehungen werden durch die Aufforderung, sich an Paulus auszurichten, möglich bzw. unerlässlich? Welche sozialen und politischen Wirkungen ergeben sich, wenn man Ähnlichkeit einfordert und ihr einen besonderen Status zuweist? Elizabeth A...read more

Product Description: Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence brings together top scholars to discuss the significance of violence from a global perspective and the intersections between the global structures of violence and more localized and intimate forms of violence...read more

Product Description: This up-to-date and forward-looking collection of essays on gender and religion fills a crucial gap. Interdisciplinary and multi-traditional, this volume highlights the contributions that different disciplinary approaches make to feminist/gender studies and religion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: What does it mean to imitate another person? What relationships are possible and necessary, or unthinkable, because of exhortation advising people to imitate Paul? What are the effects of giving special status to likeness? Questions such as these are posed in this thought-provoking book that addresses the notion of mimesis (imitation) and how it functions in Paul's letters as a strategy of power...read more