The Role of Women in Early Christianity. By Jean LaPorte. (Studies in Women and Religion, 7.) Pp. viii + 189. New York and Toronto. The Edwin Mellon Press, 1982. S29.95.

1985 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Bonner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Women And Religion ◽  
Role Of Women

Women and the Faith in Icons in Early Christianity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Herrin
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Funerary Art ◽  
Mediterranean Culture ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses the place of icons in worship, their character, and the way they came to symbolize the holy and mediate between earth and heaven. In particular, as icons became a vivid focus of devotion, they began to embody human relations with God the Creator and Ruler of the entire Christian world. It is argued that women played a notable part in this developing cult of icons. The chapter concentrates on some features of Late Antique Mediterranean culture, shared by Jews and Gentiles, pagan and Christian alike. These provided a common social experience within which the artistic evolution of the Christian church took place. In particular, the first part of this chapter is devoted to a discussion of funerary art, for this represents one of the most striking ways whereby Christians transmitted pagan rituals and artistic forms to their new faith. The second part examines some of the reasons for the preservation of these forms, once assimilated to a Christian mode, when they came under attack in the East. It asks how much that response informs us about the role of women in the cult of icons.

More ‘Holy Women’ in Early Christianity

2021 ◽  
pp. 130-150
Author(s):  
Markus Vinzent
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Song Of Songs ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Holy Women ◽  
Canonical Texts ◽  
Editing Process

This chapter explores ‘More “Holy Women” in Early Christianity: The Gospels of Mary and Marcion’. It provides a comparison between the role of women as described by the Gospel of Mary and Marcion’s Gospel (and Apostolikon) to that of the canonical Gospels. It emerges that in the two non-canonical texts women were regarded as true witnesses, prophets, and apostles of Christ in contrast to the ambiguous, if not dubious role of the twelve, and especially of that of Peter. The chapter also looks into the role of women in the Roman church where, for example, in Hippolytus (In Song of Songs 25.6) they are still known as ‘Apostles to the Apostles’. This picture differs considerably from what we are used to read, at least at face value, in the canonical texts, and ultimately asks us to consider the editing process that resulted in certain versions of the earliest stories to be erased.

Book Review: The Role of Women in Early Christianity

1983 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 714-715
Author(s):  
Edward J. Kilmartin
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Role Of Women

Creating a Culture of Caretaking

2021 ◽  
pp. 213-216
Author(s):  
Samuel Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Women

This chapter discusses the role of women in rebuilding societies in duress and re-creating a culture of caretaking, which was illustrated in the history of early Christianity in the Roman Empire and in a comparison of Uganda's and Afghanistan's capacities to recover from civil war. What happened when these two wars came to an end (or at least a lull in the level of hostilities)? The Northern Ugandan women left the refugee camps and started reconstructing agricultural life in their old villages. Because the women were able to leave the camps and operate on their own, recovery in Uganda was relatively rapid. No such rebound occurred in Afghanistan, because the country is a patriarchal place. Economic activity was restricted to men; men were too involved in politics to do much reconstructive agriculture. Ultimately, women's reconstruction of an economy is also women's reconstruction of a peace economy.

Focus on Trina Robbins

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Trina Robbins ◽  
Jennifer K. Stuller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
East Village ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The 1960S

This interview with Trina Robbins took place during a panel at the 2016 Comics Arts Conference conducted by Jennifer K. Stuller. Robbins, known both for her work as a groundbreaking cartoonist and for her histories of female comics creators, discusses her early days in New York during the 1960s, owning a clothing boutique and writing comics for the East Village Other; the creation of It Ain't Me, Babe, the first all-female comic compilation, and Wimmen's Comix, the long-running feminist underground comix series; and her work both as a “herstorian,” uncovering the overlooked role of women in comics production, and as a mentor to female creators. Fashion provides a through-line in Robbins's histories, underpinning her creative work and her feminist critiques.

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