Saving Shame Alan Riach probation officers and social workers

probation officers and social workers

accounts for the many centuries when it seemed not to thrive

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Saving Shame Alan Riach probation officers and social workersVirginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame to guilt based and, thus, in the emergence of the modern West's emphasis on guilt, Burrus seeks to recuperate the importance of shame for Christian culture. Focusing on late antiquity, she explores a