02866nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10623015 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 120517s2012 nyu sb 001 0 eng d 2012020509 9780801451423 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801465994 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)818414036 ff----- BR190 .R43 2012eb 276.1/02 23 Rebillard, �Eric. Christians and their many identities in late antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE [electronic resource] / �Eric Rebillard. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012. vii, 134 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Setting the stage : Carthage at the end of the second century -- Persecution and the limits of religious allegiance -- Being Christian in the age of Augustine. "For too long, the study of religious life in Late Antiquity has relied on the premise that Jews, pagans, and Christians were largely discrete groups divided by clear markers of belief, ritual, and social practice. More recently, however, a growing body of scholarship is revealing the degree to which identities in the late Roman world were fluid, blurred by ethnic, social, and gender differences. Christianness, for example, was only one of a plurality of identities available to Christians in this period. In Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE, �Eric Rebillard explores how Christians in North Africa between the age of Tertullian and the age of Augustine were selective in identifying as Christian, giving salience to their religious identity only intermittently. By shifting the focus from groups to individuals, Rebillard more broadly questions the existence of bounded, stable, and homogeneous groups based on Christianness. In emphasizing that the intermittency of Christianness is structurally consistent in the everyday life of Christians from the end of the second to the middle of the fifth century, this book opens a whole range of new questions for the understanding of a crucial period in the history of Christianity"--Publisher's Web site. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Christian life History Early church, ca. 30-600. Africa, North Church history. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10623015 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 55696 55696