Territory, anti-intellectual attitude, and identity formation in late antique palestinian monastic communities

Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony*

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Abstract

Identity both religious and secular is influenced by external factors. This article is an attempt to show how this is the case in connection with two Palestinian ascetic communities and how these two communities though both influenced by the Chalcedonian controversies, as well as the second Origenist controversy developed very differing identities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)244-267
Number of pages24
JournalReligion and Theology
Volume17
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011.

Keywords

  • Ascetic centres
  • Chalcedonian controversies
  • Identity formation
  • Origenist controversy
  • Palestine

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