Rumour into legend. Informal communication and identity boundaries at the origins of the Donatist controversy
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-3356.2015v8n16p111Keywords:
Social memory, Identity, Donatist controversyAbstract
Much has been written about the origins of the Donatist controversy as a memory reconstructed in later contexts or, inversely, as a set of facts which, although obscure, could be reconstituted through a critical reading of sources. But the ambiguities in the perceptions of African Christians that were already present at the beginning of the schism and that contributed to the construction of these divergent memories must also be considered. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the different uses of rumours at the outbreak of Donatist controversy and understand the process that raised these stories to the status of beliefs that justified and delimited the identity boundaries between African Christians.References
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DE STE CROIX, G. E. M. Aspects of the Great Persecution. Harvard Theological Review, Cambridge, v. 47, p. 75-113, 1954.
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DUVAL, Yvette. Chrétiens d’Afrique à l’aube de la paix constantinienne: les premiers échos de la grande persécution. Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2000.
ERNOUT, A.; MEILLET, A. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots. 4. ed. Paris: Klincksieck, 1967.
FENTRESS, J.; WICKHAM, C. Memória social: novas perspectivas sobre o passado. Tradução de Telma Costa. Lisboa: Teorema, 1992.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Du gouvernement des vivants: cours au college de France (1979-1980). Paris: EHESS, Gallimard; Seuil, 2012.
FREND, W. H. C. The Donatist church: a movement of protest in Roman North Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951. HARDIE, P. Rumour and renown: representations of fama in western literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
KAPFERER, J. N. Boatos: o mais antigo mídia do mundo. Tradução de Ivone da Silva Ramos Maya. Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 1993.
KRIEGBAUM, B. Kirche der traditoren oder kirche der märtyrer: die vorgeschichte des donatismus. Innsbruck – Wien: Tyrolia Verlag, 1986.
LANCEL, S. Les débuts du donatisme: la date du « Protocole de Cirta » et de l’élection épiscopale de Silvanus. Revue des Études Augustiniennes, Paris, v. 25, p. 217-229, 1979.
LARRAN, F. Le bruit qui vole: histoire de la rumeur et de la renommée en Grèce ancienne. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2010.
LEPELLEY, C. Chrétiens et païens au temps de la persécution de Dioclétien: le cas d’Abthugni. In: LEPELLEY, C. Aspects de l’Afrique romaine: les cités, la vie rurale, le christianisme. Bari: Edipuglia, 2001. p. 321-328.
MACGOWAN, A. Discipline and diet: feeding the martyrs in roman carthage. The Harvard Theological Review, Cambridge, v. 96, n. 4, p. 455-476, Oct. 2003.
MONCEAUX, Paul. Histoire littéraire de l’Afrique chrétienne depuis les origines jusqu’à l’invasion arabe. Paris: Le Donatisme, 1912. v. 4.
PERALTA, E. Abordagens teóricas ao estudo da memória social: uma resenha crítica. Arquivos da Memória, Lisboa, v. 2, p. 4-23, 2007.
REBILLARD, É. Christians and their many identities in late antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.
ROSSI, A. Muscae moriturae Donatistae circumvolant: la costruzione di identità “plurali” nel cristianesimo dell’Africa Romana. Milano: Ledizioni, 2013.
SHAW, B. D. Being christian in North Africa. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Michigan, v. 27, p. 934-936, 2014.
SHAW, B. D. Sacred violence: African christians and sectarian hatred in the age of augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
SHIBUTANI, T. Improvised news: a sociological study of rumor. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1966.
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OLIVEIRA, Julio Cesar Magalhães de. Rumour into legend. Informal communication and identity boundaries at the origins of the Donatist controversy. Antíteses, [S. l.], v. 8, n. 16, p. 111–129, 2016. DOI: 10.5433/1984-3356.2015v8n16p111. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/22733. Acesso em: 4 jul. 2024.
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