Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Moyaert, Marianne

Titel

Christian imaginations of the religious other : a history of religionization

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes index
• "In Roman imperial culture before Constantine (r. 306-337), Christianity was a diverse phenomenon (Fredriksen, 2014). Identities were largely "evolving and fluid" and the distinctions and boundaries between different social groups "whether those traditionally termed heretical and orthodox, or Jew and Christian" were not yet that clear (Paget & Lieu, 2017, p. 2). Christianity was a work-in-progress with no official form, and the process of configuring Christianness in a largely non-Christian world was ongoing (Buell, 2005, p. 26 ebook). From this perspective, it makes more sense to speak about Christianities, even though precisely that plurality would be denied by those seeking to establish a single Christian norm"--