Despicable Deviants: Labelling Theory and the Polemic of the Pastorals

The paper proposes that an adequate historical-critical understanding of the Pastoral Epistles — 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus — can be advanced by using sensitizing concepts from the labelling theory variant of symbolic interactionism. In the three epistles, the technique of the “status degradati...

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Main Author: Pietersen, Lloyd (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 1997
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 1997, Volume: 58, Issue: 4, Pages: 343-352
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