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Auteur(s) : Rebillard, Éric (1963-....)
Titre(s) : Christians and their many identities in late antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE [Texte imprimé] / Éric Rebillard
Publication : Ithaca (N.Y.) : Cornell University Press, 2012
Description matérielle : ix, 134 p. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Setting the stage : Carthage at the end of the second century ; Persecution and the limits of religious allegiance ; Being Christian in the age of Augustine.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-126) and index
"For too long, the study of religious life in Late Antiquity has relied on the premise
that Jews, pagans, and Christians were largely discrete groups divided by clear markers
of belief, ritual, and social practice. More recently, however, a growing body of
scholarship is revealing the degree to which identities in the late Roman world were
fluid, blurred by ethnic, social, and gender differences. Christianness, for example,
was only one of a plurality of identities available to Christians in this period.
In Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE,
Éric Rebillard explores how Christians in North Africa between the age of Tertullian
and the age of Augustine were selective in identifying as Christian, giving salience
to their religious identity only intermittently. By shifting the focus from groups
to individuals, Rebillard more broadly questions the existence of bounded, stable,
and homogeneous groups based on Christianness. In emphasizing that the intermittency
of Christianness is structurally consistent in the everyday life of Christians from
the end of the second to the middle of the fifth century, this book opens a whole
range of new questions for the understanding of a crucial period in the history of
Christianity"--Publisher's Web site
Sujet(s) : Église -- 30-600 (Église primitive)
Vie chrétienne -- 30-600 (Église primitive)
Histoire religieuse -- Afrique du Nord
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780801451423 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0801451426 (cloth) (alk. paper)
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FRBNF43515819
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