Department of Philosophy

Sara Parks awarded Early Career Fellowship

Sara Parks has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship to research how misogyny and anti-Judaism intersect in early Christianity.

Project abstract: "Historians note a sharp rise in Christian anti-woman texts from the turn of the first century. There is likewise a rise in Christian anti-Judaism. Yet a relationship between them has never been posited. This project examines early Christian misogynistic and anti-semitic texts intersectionally, proposing that the increase in Christian misogyny is linked to the rise in vitriol against Jews. My research indicates that as the demographics of Jesus-followers shifted to majority non-Jewish, the likelihood of writings against women increased. An intersectional feminist approach reveals that accommodation to Roman ideals of masculinity engendered early Christian mistrust for both women and Jews."

 

Posted on Tuesday 2nd June 2020

Department of Philosophy

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