Religion 31 - Sex,Celibacy,and the Problem of Purity:Asceticism and the Human Body in Late Antiquity

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Dartmouth College

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09S: 2A Late Antiquity (c. 300-500 C.E.) was a time when Christians struggled to understand how gender, family life, and religion could intermesh. Did virgins get to heaven faster than those who marry Can a chaste man and woman live together without succumbing to lust Were men holier than women What about women who behaved like men This course examines the changing understanding of the body, marriage, sexuality, and gender within Christianity through reading saints' lives, letters, polemical essays, and legal texts. Open to all classes. Dist: TMV; WCult: W. MacEvitt. For courses at the Introductory level in the Christian tradition, see courses numbered 5 and 15.

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3.00

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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