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Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
What does it mean to identify oneself as pagan or Christian in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? How are religious identities constructed, negotiated, and represented in oral and written discourse? How is identity performed in rituals, how is it visible in material remains?
Antiquity and the Middle Ages are usually regarded as two separate fields of scholarship. However, the period between the fourth and tenth centuries remains a time of transformations in which the process of religious change and identity building reached beyond the chronological boundary and the Roman, the Christian and ‘the barbarian’ traditions were merged in multiple ways.
Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages brings together researchers from various fields, including archaeology, history, classical studies, and theology, to enhance discussion of this period of change as one continuum across the artificial borders of the different scholarly disciplines. With new archaeological data and contributions from scholars specializing on both textual and material remains, these different fields of study shed light on how religious identities of the people of the past are defined and identified.
The contributions reassess the interplay of diversity and homogenising tendencies in a shifting religious landscape. Beyond the diversity of traditions, this book highlights the growing capacity of Christianity to hold together, under its control, the different dimensions – identity, cultural, ethical and emotional – of individual and collective religious experience.
Katja Ritari holds the title of docent of Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki.
Jan R. Stenger is a professor of Classics at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
William Van Andringa is a director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études Paris.
This book is included in DOAB.
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Keywords
- Ancient Rome
- Archaeology
- Children's, Teenage & educational
- Christian Churches & denominations
- christianity
- Church history
- Classical texts
- Conversion
- Educational material
- Educational: Religious studies
- History
- Humanities
- Literature & literary studies
- Middle Ages
- Paganism
- Religion & beliefs
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity
- thema EDItEUR::Y Children’s, Teenage and Educational::YP Educational material::YPJ Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general::YPJN Educational: Religious studies
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DOI: 10.33134/AHEAD-4web: http://www.hup.fi/site/books/e/10.33134/AHEAD-4/
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