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Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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The topic of religious identity in late antiquity is highly
contentious. How did individuals and groups come to ascribe
identities based on what would now be known as 'religion',
categorizing themselves and others with regard to Judaism,
Manichaeism, traditional Greek and Roman practices, and numerous
competing conceptions of Christianity? How and why did examples of
self-identification become established, activated, or transformed
in response to circumstances? To what extent do labels (whether
ancient and modern) for religious categories reflect a sense of a
unified and enduring social or group identity for those included
within them? How does religious identity relate to other forms of
ancient identity politics (for example, ethnic discourse concerning
'barbarians')? Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity
responds to the recent upsurge of interest in this issue by
developing interdisciplinary research between classics, ancient and
medieval history, philosophy, religion, patristics, and Byzantine
studies, expanding the range of evidence standardly used to explore
these questions. In exploring the malleability and potential
overlapping of religious identities in late antiquity, as well as
their variable expressions in response to different public and
private contexts, it challenges some prominent scholarly paradigms.
In particular, rhetoric and religious identity are here brought
together and simultaneously interrogated to provide mutual
illumination: in what way does a better understanding of rhetoric
(its rules, forms, practices) enrich our understanding of the
expression of late-antique religious identity? How does an
understanding of how religious identity was ascribed, constructed,
and contested provide us with a new perspective on rhetoric at work
in late antiquity?
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