First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Ch...(展开全部)

First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Ch...(展开全部)

In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practice of permanent sexual renunciation - continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - that developed in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. Brown vividly describes the early Christians and their strange, disturbing preoccupations. He follows in detail the reflection and controversy these notions gen...(展开全部)

First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Ch...(展开全部)

The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one was in holy orders or if the partners were of different religions. Social norms mil...(展开全部)

'Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks...What we are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in perspectives on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain...This text is groundbreaking and simply has to be read' - Acta Sociologica 'this is Shilling at his creative be...(展开全部)

'Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks...What we are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in perspectives on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain...This text is groundbreaking and simply has to be read' - Acta Sociologica 'this is Shilling at his creative be...(展开全部)

第一章　序論～在1920年代，Paul Schilder開啟了心理學以及社會學界對於「身體意象」（body image）的興趣；Paul Schilder可以稱為以心理學以及社會學的觀點來研究身體意象的始祖。在Schilder之前，對於身體意象的研究，大多著重於個體因腦傷而產生的身體知覺扭曲現象。Schilder在進行身體意象的研究過程中，廣泛地採用心理學以及社會學的理論架構，來探索個體對於自己身體的覺察與體驗。在《人體的意象與外觀》（The image and appearance of the human body）（1950）一書中，他認為身體意象不只是一種認知架構，還包括他人的態度以及與他人的互動。他也特別注意身體意象的本質，其中包括影響體型知覺變動的原因，過輕與過重的感覺以及身體意象對於人際互動的影響。對於身體意象這個概念，他定義為：個體心...(展开全部)

This is a fully revised edition of a book that may fairly claim to have re-opened the sociology of the body as a legitimate area of enquiry. The book provides an unparalleled guide to all aspects of the sociology of the body. Each chapter has been revised and updated and the book contains new material that reflects changes in the field since the last edition. In particular, Tur...(展开全部)

Reaching from the decline of the Greek Polis to Saint Augustine, this first volume of Eric Voegelin's eagerly anticipated History of Political Ideas fills the gap left between volumes 3 and 4 of Order and History. The heart of the book is the powerful account of Apostolic Christianity's political implications and the work of the early church fathers. Voegelin's consideration of...(展开全部)