Born Again Bodies
Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity (California Studies in Food and Culture, 12)
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Word Count
84,250 words, Guess
Page Count
337 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7710625M
- ISBN-139780520217539
- ISBN-100520217535
- OCLC Control Number54753317
- OCLC Control Numberbornagainbodiesf00grif
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004005272
- LibraryThing608260
Classifications
- LCCBT741.3 .G75 2004
First Sentence
Monks wasting away in the desert, saints beating their bodies and sleeping on nails, apostles renouncing all pleasures and subsisting on the charity of benefactors, pious men and women starving their senses in emulation of Christ: it is by now a truism to note that devout Christians of earlier eras displayed profound ambivalence about the flesh.
Excerpt
Monks wasting away in the desert, saints beating their bodies and sleeping on nails, apostles renouncing all pleasures and subsisting on the charity of benefactors, pious men and women starving their senses in emulation of Christ: it is by now a truism to note that devout Christians of earlier eras displayed profound ambivalence about the flesh.
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- Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity (California Studies in Food and Culture, 12)
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