Gossip and Gender and Destabilizing the Margins: An Intersectional Approach to Early Christian Memory

Destabilizing the Margins: An Intersectional Approach to Early Christian Memory

Gossip and Gender

Name: Gossip and Gender
Price: 147.4 GBP
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Author: Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
ISBN: 9783110215632

Othering of Speech in the Pastoral Epistles

by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow

Hardback
241 pages
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter& Co
15.6 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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The frequent comments about gossip in the Pastoral Epistles are noteworthy, and it often has gender implications. Insights from the growing field of gossip studies from multiple disciplines help to interpret what role gossip plays, especially in relation to how power and authority are distributed and promoted. A presentation of various texts from antiquity shows that the relation between gossip and gender is multiple and complex: to gossip was typical for all women and risky for elite men who constantly had to defend their masculinity. The ancient gossip discourse helps to understand more of the social dynamics of early Christianity, to fill in the imaginative picture and generate ideas to how Christian identity and theology were constructed.