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The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography

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Virginia Burrus argues that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not anti-erotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "counter-eroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition.

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The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography 2007, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9780812220209

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The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography 2003, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9780812237450

Hardcover