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The Body and Society parent’s guide: what’s inside
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This is a scholarly academic work by a respected historian of early Christianity, intended for university-level and adult readers. It analyzes historical religious attitudes toward the body and sexuality from an intellectual and theological perspective rather than as a narrative or children's book. The metadata does not indicate this is a children's or young adult title, and standard library classification places it in adult academic study.
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An investigation into the evolution of Christian attitudes towards human physicality and sexuality in the years between the Crucifixion and the work of St Augustine. An investigation into the evolution of Christian attitudes towards human physicality and sexuality in the years between the Crucifixion and the work of St Augustine.
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- human sexuality
- Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Sex, religious aspects
- Sex customs
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ISBN 9780231061018 · Columbia University Press