{"product_id":"mary-and-early-christian-women-hidden-leadership-9783030111106","title":"Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal.  Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter\/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a real church depict women and men in a gender-parallel liturgy inside two of the most important churches in Christendom—Old Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dr. Kateusz’s research brings to light centuries of censorship, both ancient and modern, and debunks the modern imagination that from the beginning only men were apostles and clergy.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ally Kateusz has written an engaging and extensively researched book examining the evidence for liturgical roles for women in the early Church. … Mary and Early Christian Women will certainly be encouraging to those girls and women who have only seen examples of male leadership in the Church, and for whom the example of Mary has been misused and abused, by providing an alternative image of an empowered, active Mary as a type for female leadership in the early Church.” (Nell Whiscombe, Modern Believing, Vol. 64 (4), 2023)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book will inspire Christian scholars, ministers, and congregations to rethink their perspectives on gender roles in Christianity. … this book will assist in breaking the prevalent misperception that early church women leaders were rare. It will challenge readers to fully acknowledge that women have been integrally present throughout Christian history.” (JungJa Joy Yu, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, April 27, 2021)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ally Kateusz presents a multidisciplinary analysis of literary texts, church art, and church … . She supports her literary and iconographic claims with official church commissions, directives, and commentaries, sometimes made by popes. …. For scholars, the book is a treasure trove, with thirty-nine pages of references and fifty pages of notes. … Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership is a stimulating read and the author’s perspective on imagination and Christian history will make you think. Highly recommended.” (Elizabeth Ursic, Cross-Currents, Vol. 71 (1), March, 2021)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mary and Early Christian Women would certainly interest readers who are invested in women’s roles in churches and especially readers invested in Catholicism. … The artwork included in this book is stunning, and the images portray Mary and other women in significant liturgical roles. Overall, Mary and Early Christian Women is a significant contribution to the field for its attention to extracanonical texts, artistic analysis, and its accessibility.” (Christy Cobb, RBL, Review of Biblical Literature, Issue 12, 2020)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.            Background and Perspective on Mary\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Why the Mother of Jesus?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Mary, a Jew\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Mary Remembered in the Extracanonical Gospels\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Methodology\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                The Power of Bio-Power\u003c\/p\u003e                  Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2.            More Collyridian Déjà vu \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                The Old Rule of Thumb: lectio brevior potior \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Redaction Analysis of Mary’s Religious Authority\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                A Scene of Mary Exorcising Demons\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Women Using Censers and Incense\u003c\/p\u003e  Kernels of Historicity: Women Using Censers Liturgically\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Redaction Analysis of the Markers of Women’s Authority\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.            Women Apostles: Preachers and Baptizers \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Assembling a Jigsaw Puzzle—The Apostle Mariamne in the Acts of Philip\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Sexual Slander as Evidence of Women in the Clergy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Irene, Apostle of Jesus \u003c\/p\u003e                  The Long Narrative about Irene’s Life\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Male Re-Baptizers and the Apostle Nino\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Irene Baptizes and Seals\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                The “Apostle” Thecla Baptizes and Seals\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Dating Controversy: When Was the Life of Thecla Composed?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                The Thecla Tertullian Knew\u003c\/p\u003e                  Cultural Context \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4.            Mary, High Priest and Bishop\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Jesus’s Mother Versus 1 Timothy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Mary in Art: High Priest and Bishop \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Mary with the Episcopal Pallium\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Mary with the Cloth of the Eucharistic Officiant \u003c\/p\u003e                  Women with the Cloth of the Eucharistic Officiant \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5.            Mother and Son, Paired\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Mother and Son Paired on Objects Used in the Liturgy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Dividing the Mother-Son Dyad: The Maria Maggiore Mosaics\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                The Mother-Son Dyad in Art Prior to the Council of Ephesus\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Mother and Son Paired in Third- and Fourth-Century Funereal Art\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.            The Life of the Virgin and Its Antecedents\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                The Oldest Text of the Life of the Virgin\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                The Annunciation to Mary in the Temple\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Mary at the Baptism of Her Son\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                The Women at the Lord’s Supper\u003c\/p\u003e                  Partaking at the Temple Altar in the Gospel of Bartholomew\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Gender Parallelism in the Liturgy in the Didascalia apostolorum\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                The Ritual of Body and Blood according to the Apostolic Church Order\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.            Women and Men at the Last Supper: Reception\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Female and Male Co-Officiants from the Second Century Onwards\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Writings that Paired Male and Female Clerical Titles \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Women Overseers or Bishops\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Cerula and Bitalia, Ordained Bishops\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Historicity of Pulcheria inside the Holy of Holies of the Second Hagia Sophia\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Female and Male Clergy at the Altar in Old Saint Peter’s Basilica\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                The Ciborium in Old Saint Peter’s Basilica\u003c\/p\u003e                  The Altar in Old Saint Peter’s Basilica\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Possible Identification of the Male and Female Officiants at the Altar Table\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Theodora and Justinian in San Vitale: Modeling Mary and Jesus at the Last Supper\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                Third-Century Evidence of Gender Parity at the Offering Table\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8. Modes of Silencing\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eModes of Silencing the Past\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBreaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52085950611799,"sku":"9783030111106","price":23.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mary-and-early-christian-women-hidden-leadership-9783030111106","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}