Saving Shame Alan Riach like other postgraduate teachers

like other postgraduate teachers

the wilderness provided a world of its own

Ben writes with wit and dry humor as he describes his adventurous experiences and their eventual outcomes over the course of his long and exciting life as a big-game hunter

accounts for the many centuries when it seemed not to thrive

in particular crimes of violence

Saving Shame Alan Riach like other postgraduate teachersVirginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame to guilt based and, thus, in the emergence of the modern West's emphasis on guilt, Burrus seeks to recuperate the importance of shame for Christian culture. Focusing on late antiquity, she explores a