{"product_id":"profaning-paul-hardcover","title":"Profaning Paul - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCavan W. Concannon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA critical reconsideration of the repeated use of the biblical letters of Paul.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The letters of Paul have been used to support and condone a host of evils over the span of more than two millennia: racism, slavery, imperialism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism, to name a few. Despite, or in some cases because of, this history, readers of Paul have felt compelled to reappropriate his letters to fit liberal or radical politics, seeking to set right the evils done in Paul's name. Starting with the language of excrement, refuse, and waste in Paul's letters, \u003ci\u003eProfaning Paul\u003c\/i\u003e looks at how Paul's \"shit\" is recycled and reconfigured. It asks why readers, from liberal Christians to academic biblical scholars to political theorists and philosophers, feel compelled to make Paul into a hero, mining his words for wisdom. Following the lead of feminist, queer, and minoritized scholarship, \u003ci\u003eProfaning Paul\u003c\/i\u003e asks what would happen if we stopped recycling Paul's writings. By profaning the status of his letters as sacred texts, we might open up new avenues for imagining political figurations to meet our current and coming political, economic, and ecological challenges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCavan Concannon\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Assembling Early Christianity: Trade, Networks, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth \u003c\/i\u003eand \"\u003ci\u003eWhen You Were Gentiles\" Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence\u003c\/i\u003e. He is codirector of the Mediterranean Connectivity Initiative and has excavated at Corinth and Ostia Antica. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42100105740423,"sku":"9780226815633","price":185.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a8c4b99a67013d496b14ddcb1ab65669.webp?v=1732381347","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/profaning-paul-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}