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Aliens and Sojourners: Self as Other in Early Christianity
Benjamin H. Dunning
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Hardback. Why did early Christians claim their "otherness" as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners so vocally? Aliens and Sojourners explores the markedly different ways that Christians used the rhetoric of their own marginality in order to variously situate Christian identity in relation to the ancient Roman world. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what ends? How did Christians' claims to foreign status situate them with respect to each other and to the larger Roman world as the new movement grew and struggled to make sense of its own boundaries? Aliens and Sojourners argues that the claim to alien status is not a transparent one. Instead, Benjamin Dunning contends, it shaped a rich, pervasive, variegated discourse of identity in early ... Read more
Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what ends? How did Christians' claims to foreign status situate them with respect to each other and to the larger Roman world as the new movement grew and struggled to make sense of its own boundaries? Aliens and Sojourners argues that the claim to alien status is not a transparent one. Instead, Benjamin Dunning contends, it shaped a rich, pervasive, variegated discourse of identity in early ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812241563
SKU
V9780812241563
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About Benjamin H. Dunning
Benjamin H. Dunning teaches theology at Fordham University.
Reviews for Aliens and Sojourners: Self as Other in Early Christianity
An outstanding book . . . assiduously researched and well-argued. -Bible and Critical Theory A significant contribution to our understanding of early Christian collective self-definition. Dunning shows that many early Christians used ideas about foreignness and civic belonging to shape and contest what it could mean to become and be Christian in the pluralistic cultures under Roman imperial rule. ... Read more