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Group identity and religious individuality in late antiquity / edited by Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke.

Contributor(s): Rebillard, E¿¿ric [editor.] | Ru¿˜pke, Jo¿˜rg [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: CUA studies in early Christianity: Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: viii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780813227436 (cloth : alk. paper); 0813227437 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Identification (Religion)DDC classification: 270.2 LOC classification: BR200 | .G76 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Background -- Introduction: groups, individuals, and religious identity / Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke -- The legal framework of religious identity in the Roman empire / Karl Leo Noethlichs -- Religion and religious individuals -- Am I a Christian? The individual at the Manichaean-Christian interface / Jason David BeDuhn -- Sixth-century individual rituals: private chapels and the reserved Eucharist / Kim Bowes -- Gregory of Nazianzus: mediation between individual and community / Susanna Elm -- Group strategies and individual religiosity -- The mother's role in Maccabean martyrology / Tessa Rajak -- Perpetua's vas: asserting Christian identity / Judith Perkins -- Senatorial aristocracy: how individual is individual religiosity? / Kristine Iara -- "Initiation" in the western provinces of the Roman empire / Wolfgang Spickermann -- Individuals, identities, and religion -- Roles and individuality in the chronograph of 354 / Jörg Rüpke -- Bishop Aeneas and the Church of St. Theodore in Gerasa / Rubina Raja -- Late antique limits of Christianness: North Africa in the age of Augustine / Éric Rebillard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Background -- Introduction: groups, individuals, and religious identity / Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke -- The legal framework of religious identity in the Roman empire / Karl Leo Noethlichs -- Part II. Religion and religious individuals -- Am I a Christian? The individual at the Manichaean-Christian interface / Jason David BeDuhn -- Sixth-century individual rituals: private chapels and the reserved Eucharist / Kim Bowes -- Gregory of Nazianzus: mediation between individual and community / Susanna Elm -- Part III. Group strategies and individual religiosity -- The mother's role in Maccabean martyrology / Tessa Rajak -- Perpetua's vas: asserting Christian identity / Judith Perkins -- Senatorial aristocracy: how individual is individual religiosity? / Kristine Iara -- "Initiation" in the western provinces of the Roman empire / Wolfgang Spickermann -- Part IV. Individuals, identities, and religion -- Roles and individuality in the chronograph of 354 / Jörg Rüpke -- Bishop Aeneas and the Church of St. Theodore in Gerasa / Rubina Raja -- Late antique limits of Christianness: North Africa in the age of Augustine / Éric Rebillard.

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