初期キリスト教における癒しのジェンダー化 Women Healing/Healing Women : The Genderisation of Healing in Early Christianity

Wainwright, Elaine

Equinox Publishing Ltd（2006/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 278 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781845531355
• DDC分類 203.1

基本説明

What emerges, by the first century of the Common Era, is a world in which women functioned as healers as well as healed, and that healing was a site of contestation in relation to gender. The interpretive lens brought to bear on the range of sources used in this study is a multi-dimensional one informed by feminism, post-colonialism and ecological studies.

Full Description

'Women Healing/ Healing Women' begins with a search for women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period. Women healers were honoured in inscriptions and named by medical writers, and were familiar enough to be stereotyped in plays and other writings. What emerges by the first century of the Common Era is a world in which women functioned as healers but where healing becomes a contested site for gender relations. By the time the gospels are written the place of women as healers is effectively erased. The book uses the historical and cultural evidence to re-read the gospel texts and discover healers in a woman pouring out ointment, healed women bearing on their bodies the language describing Jesus, and even in women possessed by demons.

Contents

Introduction; 1: Where Theory and Practice Meet: A Way toward Transformation; 2: Women Healing/Healing Women: A New Listening to Antiquity; 3: Pharmaka, Magica, Hygieia: When Reality and Stereotype Meet-What Lies Beyond?; 4: Telling Stories of Women Healing/Healing Women: The Gospel of Mark; 5: Re-telling Stories of Women Healing/Healing Women: The Gospel of Matthew; 6: Women Cured of Evil Spirits and Infirmities: The Gospel of Luke; Conclusion