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The Politics of Heaven: Women, Gender, and Empire in the Study of Paul (Paul in Critical Contexts)

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You know your in trouble when in the first couple of pages the author dons sack cloth and ashes by describing himself as an elite pale male.

I hope that this book would answer some questions I had concerning the Apostle and his interactions with the early Christians of that era. Instead what I got was a disjointed and bizzare rant about post colonial feminism, class mobility and other colonized women. Plus,for some odd reason, the author attempts to link Paul's words with U.S. class power and African women. Perhaps the books most bizzare statement is on page 83 where the author writes that: the colonial imagination can be charaterized as "porno-tropic', as it sexualized and gendered peoples and locations." No doubt Paul was thinking of dusky maidens and palm trees while walking toward Corinth.

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