The topic of religious identity in late antiquity is highly contentious. How did individuals and groups come to ascribe identities based on what would now be known as 'religion', categorizing themselves and others with regard to Judaism, Manichaeism, traditional Greek and Roman practices, and numerous competing conceptions of Christianity How and why did examples of self-identification become established,
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The topic of religious identity in late antiquity is highly contentious. How did individuals and groups come to ascribe identities based on what would now be known as 'religion', categorizing themselves and others with regard to Judaism, Manichaeism, traditional Greek and Roman practices, and numerous competing conceptions of Christianity How and why did examples of self-identification become established, activated, or transformed in response to circumstances To what extent do labels whether ancient and modern for religious categories reflect a sense of a unified and enduring social or group identity for those included within them How does religious identity relate to other forms of ancient identity politics for example, ethnic discourse concerning 'barbarians' emRhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquityem responds to the recent upsurge of interest in this issue by developing interdisciplinary research between classics, ancient and medieval history, philosophy, brreligion, patristics, and Byzantine studies, expanding the range of evidence standardly used to explore these questions. In exploring the malleability and potential overlapping of religious identities in late antiquity, as well as their variable expressions in response to different public and private contexts, it challenges some prominent scholarly paradigms. In particular, rhetoric and religious identity are here brought together and simultaneously interrogated to provide mutual illumination in what way does a better understanding of rhetoric its rules, forms, practices enrich our understanding of the expression of late-antique religious identity How does an understanding of how religious identity was ascribed, constructed, and contested provide us with a new perspective on rhetoric at work in late antiquity p
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