Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE by Ric Rebillard

Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE by Ric Rebillard

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.

In Christians and their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, Éric Rebillard goes much further in problematizing group formation in late Roman Africa[Rebillard] stridently critiques the widespread scholarly tendency to assume that 'Christians' (and, for that matter, 'pagans') represented an identifiable group in late Roman society. [He] stresses that religious affiliation was only one facet of these individuals' identities and did not translate automatically into participation within the 'internally homogeneous and externally bounded groups' (2) generally presumed by historical analysis.

-- Robin Whelan * Journal of Roman Studies *

It is certainly refreshing to have to consider 'the intermittency.. of Christianness' (p. 93) in the everyday lived experience of individual Christians during the vastly changing religious and social conditions prevailing in North Africa over these nearly three centuries. Rebillard acutely raises the pertinent questions of what exactly it meant to be a Christian over these years and what were the parameters of Christian identity. For this, Rebillard has done us a stimulating and innovative service.

-- Graeme Clarke * The Catholic Historical Review *

The sensation one gets reading Rebillard's book is similar to donning a pair of 3D-glasses. Each lens filters properly so that in combinationwe see new and marvelous things.

-- Erika T. Hermanowicz * Journal of Early Christian Studies *

Éric Rebillard is Professor of Classics and History at Cornell University. He is the author of The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity, also from Cornell.

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ISBN 13	9781501713576
ISBN 10	1501713574
Title	Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE
Author	Éric Rebillard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2017-01-30
Number of pages	144
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