Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity
Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity To understand the past, we necessarily group people together and, consequently, frequently assume that all of its members share the same…
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Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity
To understand the past, we necessarily group people together and, consequently, frequently assume that all of its members share the same attributes. Instead of taking religious groups as their point of departure, the authors in Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity address the methodological challenges attached to a rescaling of the analysis at the level of the individual. In this ground-breaking volume, Eric Rebillard and J rg R pke bring renowned scholars together to challenge this norm by seeking to rediscover the individual and to explore the dynamics between individuals and the groups to which they belong.
Too often, the lack of direct evidence on individuals is used as a justification for taking the group as the In particular, they explore the tension between looking for evidence about individuals and taking individuals into account when looking at evidence.