02866nam a2200361 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003900112020002700151040002100178035002100199043001200220050002300232082001700255100002400272245013000296260004700426300001600473504005100489505016400540520130900704533015202013650006002165650005502225651003502280655002902315710001702344856012602361999001702487ebr10623015CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||120517s2012    nyu     sb    001 0 eng d  z  2012020509  z9780801451423 (cloth : alk. paper)  z9780801465994 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)818414036  aff-----14aBR190b.R43 2012eb04a276.1/022231 aRebillard, �Eric.10aChristians and their many identities in late antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CEh[electronic resource] /c�Eric Rebillard.  aIthaca :bCornell University Press,c2012.  avii, 134 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aSetting the stage : Carthage at the end of the second century -- Persecution and the limits of religious allegiance -- Being Christian in the age of Augustine.  a"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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2011.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aChurch historyyPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600. 0aChristian lifexHistoryyEarly church, ca. 30-600. 0aAfrica, NorthxChurch history. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10623015zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c55696d55696