Acts of Empire Second Edition: The Acts of the Apostles and Imperial Ideology (Critical Theory and Biblical Studies)

This book combines New Testament studies and cultural theory and analyzes Acts of the Apostles as a product of imperial discourse. In five chapters Christina Petterson engages Acts with ideology gender class and empire with different emphases. All of these analyses argue that Christianity can never be set outside discourses of exploitation discrimination and hierarchies but must always be set within them.