Acts of Empire, Second Edition
The Acts of the Apostles and Imperial Ideology
Critical Theory and Biblical Studies
Imprint: Cascade Books
118 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.24 in
- Paperback
- 9781532676307
- Published: March 2020
- eBook
- 9781532676321
- Published: March 2020
- Hardcover
- 9781532676314
- Published: March 2020
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This book combines New Testament studies and cultural theory, and analyzes Acts of the Apostles as a product of imperial discourse. In five chapters, Christina Petterson engages Acts with ideology, gender, class, and empire with different emphases. All of these analyses argue that Christianity can never be set outside discourses of exploitation, discrimination, and hierarchies, but must always be set within them.