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Heather Barkman

Dr. Heather Barkman received her PhD in Religion in 2016. She currently teaches in the Religion Department and the Classics Department at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. Additionally, she frequently offers public courses through the McNally Robinson Community Classroom and Creative Retirement Manitoba. Her main research and teaching interests are on women in early Christianity, martyrdom, and life in the Roman Empire.
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On Family and Identity: The Passion of Perpetua

Heather Barkman December 10, 2024

In the first few centuries of the Common Era, Christians were the targets of sporadic persecutions by the Roman authorities. The imperial persecutions of Decius,

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