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James C. Hanges, Paul, Founder of Churches:
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A Study in Light of the Evidence for the Role of "Founder-Figures" in the Hellenistic-Roman Period. A Review Essay
Heidi Wendt
Leiden
Brill
James C. Hanges' new book raises a number of important questions about what it means to situate Paul's religious activities within his own historical context, and also models one possible methodology for doing so. In this review, I interrogate some of the assumptions underpinning Hanges' approach, namely, ones having to do with the cultural particularity of certain discourses and religious practices, as well as the utility of the concept "identity" as it pertains to the study of religion. I also attempt to draw the author's conclusions into wider and ongoing efforts to theorize ancient Mediterranean religion by proposing that many of the actors whom he introduces as comparanda for Paul fall within a discrete class of religious activity, populated by varieties of freelance experts. James C. Hanges' new book raises a number of important questions about what it means to situate Paul's religious activities within his own historical context, and also models one possible methodology for doing so. In this review, I interrogate some of the assumptions underpinning Hanges' approach, namely, ones having to do with the cultural particularity of certain discourses and religious practices, as well as the utility of the concept "identity" as it pertains to the study of religion. I also attempt to draw the author's conclusions into wider and ongoing efforts to theorize ancient Mediterranean religion by proposing that many of the actors whom he introduces as comparanda for Paul fall within a discrete class of religious activity, populated by varieties of freelance experts.
2014
292-302
Religion and Theology
20/3-4
1574-3012
Epistles of Paul
ethnicity
Greece - religion
identity
post-colonial theory
Rome - religion
Heidi Wendt
10.1163/15743012-12341264
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