Mary and early Christian women : hidden leadership /

Mary and early Christian women : hidden leadership /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kateusz, Ally, author.
Imprint:	[Cham, Switzeland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 295 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Theology. Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint. Feminist theology. Feminist theology. Theology of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12337197

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ISBN:	9783030111113 3030111113 9783030111106 3030111105
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-281) and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 11/02/2020).
Summary:	This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders-women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a real church depict women and men in a gender-parallel liturgy inside two of the most important churches in Christendom-Old Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome and the second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dr. Kateusz's research brings to light centuries of censorship, both ancient and modern, and debunks the modern imagination that from the beginning only men were apostles and clergy.
Other form:	Print version: Kateusz, Ally. Mary and early Christian women : hidden leadership. [Cham, Switzeland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019] 9783030111106

Table of Contents:

1. Background and Perspective on Mary
2. More Collyridian Déjà vu
3. Women Apostles: Preachers and Baptizers
4. Mary, High Priest and Bishop
5. Mother and Son, Paired
6. The Life of the Virgin and Its Antecedents
7. Women and Men at the Last Supper: Reception
8. Modes of Silencing.