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Acts of Empire, Second Edition

The Acts of the Apostles and Imperial Ideology
By:Christina Petterson
Publisher:Wipf and Stock Publishers
Print ISBN:9781532676307
eText ISBN:9781532676321
Edition:0
Format:Reflowable

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This book combines New Testament studies and cultural theory, and analyzes Acts of the Apostles as a product of imperial discourse. In five chapters, Christina Petterson engages Acts with ideology, gender, class, and empire with different emphases. All of these analyses argue that Christianity can never be set outside discourses of exploitation, discrimination, and hierarchies, but must always be set within them.