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Miles, Margaret Ruth was born on May 18, 1937 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Kenneth Leroy and Mary Lillian (Brown) Miles.
(When we look at Michelangelo's David, we see a nakedness ...)
When we look at Michelangelo's David, we see a nakedness that expresses physical prowess, self-knowledge, and spiritual discipline. What do we see when we look at Hans Baldung's Eve, the Serpent, and Death or Master Francke's Martyrdom of Saint Barbara? Why should those naked female images symbolize wantonness and shame? How do ideas about nakedness formed at the dawn of Christianity continue to shape today's sexual values? What must women do to take their bodies back? This revolutionary study by Margaret R. Miles, formerly Bussey Professor of Historical Theology at the Harvard Divinity School and author of the acclaimed Images as Insight, sifts through centuries of Christian writing and religious ritual and, above all, Western art to reveal the origins of our attitudes toward women's bodies and their encoded meanings. Broad enough to encompass fourth-century descriptions of Christian baptism and contemporary theories of representation, Carnal Knowing is a brilliant, startling work of scholarship whose implications extend far beyond the academy to the way we live and see.
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Miles, Margaret Ruth was born on May 18, 1937 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Kenneth Leroy and Mary Lillian (Brown) Miles.
Bachelor, San Francisco State University, 1969. Master of Arts, San Francisco State University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, 1977.
Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1985.
Instructor, Modesto (California) Junior College, 1971-1976; instructor, Columbia (California) Junior College, 1973-1976; assistant professor, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978-1981; associate professor, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981-1985; professor, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985-1987; Bussey professor history theology, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1987.
(When we look at Michelangelo's David, we see a nakedness ...)
(When we look at Michelangelo's David, we see a nakedness ...)
(A bold, new understanding of Augustine. Going beyond the ...)
(Book by Miles, Margaret Ruth)
(Book by Miles, Margaret R.)
(Book by Miles, Margaret R.)
Member American Association Religion, American History Society, American Theological Society, American Society Church History. Clubs: American Lute Seminars (vice president since 1976).
Married Owen C. Thomas, June 6, 1981. Children: Susan Katherine Burris, Richard David Burris.