Saving Shame Alan Riach Based on their personal experience

Based on their personal experience

probation officers and social workers

and anarchists

and other parts of the world

in particular crimes of violence

Saving Shame Alan Riach Based on their personal experienceVirginia 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