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    Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception
    Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception
    Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception
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    Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

    By Adriana Valerio

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    “Brilliant . . . Essential reading for anyone who cares about Church history and gender equality. . . . speaks to our times with impressive relevance.” —Reading in Translation

    From one of Italy’s most renowned historians of religion, an exciting new portrait of one of Christianity’s most complex—and most misunderstood—figures: Mary Magdalene

    Jesus’ favorite and most devoted disciple? A prostitute shunned from her community? A symbol of female leadership and independence? Who really was Mary Magdalene, and how does her story fit within the history of Christianity, and that of female emancipation?

    In this meticulously researched, highly engaging book, Adriana Valerio looks at history, art, and literature to show how centuries of misinterpretation and willful distortion—aimed at establishing and preserving gender hierarchies—have stripped this historical figure of her complexity and relevance.

    By revealing both the benign and the pernicious misrepresentations of Mary Magdalene, this thought-provoking essay reaffirms the central role played by women in the origins of Christianity and their essential contribution to one of the founding experiences of Western thought and society.

    “Persuasive. . . . Academics working in Christianity should get much from this well-argued study.” —Publishers Weekly

    “A masterful work.” —Osservatore Romano

    “A short and readable yet sweeping and well-researched essay that stands out for its intellectual honesty [ . . . ] We are all Mary Magdalene.” —Cultura al femminile
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 16, 2021
    ISBN9781609457068
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    Adriana Valerio

    Adriana Valerio is a historian of religion and has taught History of Christianity at the University of Naples. One of the first Italian women to graduate in theology, for the last three decades she has researched the role and memory of women in the history of Christianity.

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