Tertullian the African an anthropological reading of Tertullian's context and identities

Who was Tertullian, and what can we know about him? This work explores his social identities, focusing on his North African milieu. Theories from the discipline of social/cultural anthropology, including kinship, class and ethnicity, are accommodated and applied to selections of Tertullian's wr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilhite, David E. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter c2007.
Berlin ; Boston : [2011]
Series:Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 14.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654316706719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Conceptual Frameworks for Re-Reading Tertullian
  • 2 Social Identity
  • 3 Kinship Theory
  • 4 Class Theory
  • 5 Ethnicity Theory
  • 6 Anthropology of Religion
  • 7 Disciplinary Frameworks for Re-Contextualizing Tertullian
  • Bibliography
  • Index