Description:
Virginia Burrus argues that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not anti-erotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive counter-eroticism that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition.
Review Quotes: "Brilliant and important. . . . From page one she challenges approaches to hagiography that dismiss ascetic desire as the sublimation of sexuality and a pathological hatred of the body."-- "Theological Studies"