Rhetoric and religious identity in late antiquity / edited by Richard Flower and Morwenna Ludlow.

• Rhetoric and religious identity in Late Antiquity / Richard Flower, Morwenna Ludlow --?Approaching 'religious identity' in Late Antiquity / Éric Rebillard -- The rhetoric of pagan religious identities : Porphyry and his first readers / Aaron P. Johnson -- The Maccabees, 'apostasy', and Julian's appropriation of Hellenismos as a reclaimed epithet in Christian conversations of the fourth century CE / Douglas Boin -- Julian the Apologist : Christians and pagans on the mother of the gods / Shaun Tougher -- Bodies, books, histories : Augustine of Hippo and the extraordinary (civ. Dei 16.8 and Pliny, HN 7) / Susanna Elm -- Classical decadence or Christian aesthetics? Libanius, John Chrysostom, and Augustine on rhetoric / Raffaella Cribiore -- Very great are your words : dialogue as rhetoric in Manichaean Kephalaia / Nicholas Baker-Brian -- A Christian cannot employ magic : rhetorical self-fashioning of the magicless Christianity of Late Antiquity / Maijastina Kahlos -- The rhetorical construction of a Christian empire in the Theodosian Code / Mark Humphries -- What happened after Eusebius? : Chronicles and narrative identities in the fourth century / Peter Van Nuffelen -- The rhetoric of heresiological prefaces / Richard Flower -- Constructing identity in the tomb : the visual rhetoric of early Christian iconography / Robin M. Jensen -- Renunciation and ascetic identity in the Liber ad Renatum of Asterius Ansedunensis / Hajnalka Tamas -- Christian literary identity and rhetoric about style / Morwenna Ludlow.

• 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? 

Ämnesord

Religionshistoria  (sao)

Antiken  (sao)

Rhetoric, Ancient.  (LCSH)

Religion  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Religions  -- Relations -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Identification (Religion)  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Rhetoric  -- Religious aspects. (LCSH)

Identification (Religion)  (fast)

Interfaith relations.  (fast)

Religion.  (fast)

Religions.  (fast)

Rhetoric, Ancient.  (fast)

Rhetoric  -- Religious aspects. (fast)

Identitet (religion)  -- historia (sao)

Retorik  -- religiösa aspekter (sao)

Religion - History  (LCSH)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

BL53 (LCC)

200.19 (DDC)

C:do (kssb/8 (machine generated))