Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture

Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Through case studies of New Testament texts, Gnostic treatises, and early Christian church fathers (e.g., Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian of Carthage), Travis W. Proctor notes that early
followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless,