Tertullian the African : An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian's Context and Identities

This work is largely a social history of Tertullian, a Christian from Carthage (c.160� CE), and his ancient African context, which is viewed through a postcolonial lens.Theories from the discipline of social/cultural anthropology, e.g. kinship, class and ethnicity, are applied to selections of Tertu...

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Main Author: Wilhite, David E. (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2011
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