Expressing Christianness in Carthage in the Second and Third Centuries

Second and third-century Christians in Carthage seem to have expressed their Christianness in contexts in which they were with other Christians and in which they were already identified as such. There is little evidence of other, public, contexts in which they gave salience to their Christianness ov...

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Main Author: Rebillard, Éric 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Mohr Siebeck [2017]
In: Religion in the Roman empire
Year: 2017, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 119-134
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Carthage / Christianity / Religious identity / History 100-300
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KBL Near East and North Africa
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B Carthage
B Salience
B Religious Identity
B Christianness
B Tertullian
B Identification
B Christianity
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Summary:Second and third-century Christians in Carthage seem to have expressed their Christianness in contexts in which they were with other Christians and in which they were already identified as such. There is little evidence of other, public, contexts in which they gave salience to their Christianness over other category memberships such as those attached to their social group or to their trade. The fact that they did not live in a separate Christian world, and that fear could not account for their behaviour, confirms that a number of Christians adopted a lateral arrangement of their category memberships, in which situational selection is the key to the activation or not of a given category.
ISSN:2199-4471
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1628/219944617X14860387744348