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Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: CUA Studies in Early Christianity
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To understand the past, we necessarily group people together and,
consequently, frequently assume that all of its members share the
same attributes. In this ground-breaking volume, Eric Rebillard and
Joerg Rupke bring renowned scholars together to challenge this norm
by seeking to rediscover the individual and to explore the dynamics
between individuals and the groups to which they belong. Instead of
taking religious groups as their point of departure, the authors in
Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity
address the methodological challenges attached to a rescaling of
the analysis at the level of the individual. In particular, they
explore the tension between looking for evidence about individuals
and taking individuals into account when looking at evidence. Too
often, the lack of direct evidence on individuals is used as a
justification for taking the group as the unit of analysis.
However, evidence on group life can be read with individuals as the
focal point. What it reveals is how complex is the interaction of
group identity and religious individuality. The questions examined
by these authors include the complex relationships between
institutional religions and religious individuals, the possibility
of finding evidence on individual religiosity and exploring the
multiplicity of roles and identities that characterizes every
individual. Shifting the attention towards individuals also calls
into question the assumption of groups and invites the study of
group-making process. The result is a picture that makes room for
dynamic tension between group identity and religious individuality.
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