Divine Domesticity: Augustine of Thagaste to Teresa of Avila

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-90-04-10675-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

This volume is a cultural analysis of the home during the Christian centuries, when home was believed to be heaven. It investigates the traditional belief in the divine indwelling - but by reversing the history of doctrine to venture doctrine as history. Analysis proceeds not by speculation on faculties of the soul but by research on actualities of housing. What did believers experience about habitat? its relationships? its rooms?
The book examines four cultural constructs of dwelling: the inn, the sanctuary, the villa, and the castle. Its focus is the hearth as the familial place. A lesson in alterity, it exposes the rejection of the divine indwelling as at home (John 14:23). It discovers a fundamental disparity between domesticity and the asceticism that dominated western civilization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Rourke Boyle, Marjorie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Kirchliche Bildungseinrichtungen, Diakonie, Caritas

Über Autor(innen)

Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Ph.D., is a cultural historian specializing in religion. She is the author of Petrarch's Genius: Pentimento and Prophecy, (Berkeley, 1993), and of three books on Erasmus (Toronto, Harvard).