Max-Weber-Kolleg für Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Professur für Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft, Universität Erfurt
Schwerpunkt Religion der Universität Erfurt
gefördert von der DFG
The Christian faith traces its origins in an act of extreme violence. In the aftermath of the Jesus’ execution, his followers were left to grapple with the implications of both the fact and the violent manner of his death. For some Christians, identification with the crucified Jesus meant a willingness to suffer violence, and even the active pursuit of death. Other Christians debated whether membership in the ekklesia prohibited them from fulfilling the grisly duties required of their occupations. While Christians in the first three centuries were more likely to find themselves on the receiving end of state-sanctioned violence, by the end of the fourth century, elite Christians were confronted by the dilemma of determining the conditions under which it might be legitimate to use state violence for their own ends.
This research conference aims to examine how early Christian experiences as victims and perpetrators of violence contributed to the construction of Christian identity(ies) in the first four centuries of the Christian era, through the reign of Theodosius. We are especially interested in exploring the relationship between Christian discourses on violence and three
particular facets of early Christian identity:
a) conceptions of the self as an ethical agent;
b) strategies for coping with the experience of traumatic violence, both individual and
corporate; and
c) strategies for legitimizing the perpetration of violent acts.
Contributors will investigate the realities and imaginations of violence among early Christians, as well as their Pagan and Jewish contemporaries in the Greco-Roman world. Lectures will explore themes including martyrdom, persecution, and capital punishment, as well as those that extend the question to topics such as the extirpation of the passions, violence and war, trauma, and sacrifice.
https://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/public-docs/Max-Weber-Kolleg/6-pdfs/Tagungen/2017/Conference_Erfurt_07_14_17-2.pdf
Professur für Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft, Universität Erfurt
Schwerpunkt Religion der Universität Erfurt
gefördert von der DFG
The Christian faith traces its origins in an act of extreme violence. In the aftermath of the Jesus’ execution, his followers were left to grapple with the implications of both the fact and the violent manner of his death. For some Christians, identification with the crucified Jesus meant a willingness to suffer violence, and even the active pursuit of death. Other Christians debated whether membership in the ekklesia prohibited them from fulfilling the grisly duties required of their occupations. While Christians in the first three centuries were more likely to find themselves on the receiving end of state-sanctioned violence, by the end of the fourth century, elite Christians were confronted by the dilemma of determining the conditions under which it might be legitimate to use state violence for their own ends.
This research conference aims to examine how early Christian experiences as victims and perpetrators of violence contributed to the construction of Christian identity(ies) in the first four centuries of the Christian era, through the reign of Theodosius. We are especially interested in exploring the relationship between Christian discourses on violence and three
particular facets of early Christian identity:
a) conceptions of the self as an ethical agent;
b) strategies for coping with the experience of traumatic violence, both individual and
corporate; and
c) strategies for legitimizing the perpetration of violent acts.
Contributors will investigate the realities and imaginations of violence among early Christians, as well as their Pagan and Jewish contemporaries in the Greco-Roman world. Lectures will explore themes including martyrdom, persecution, and capital punishment, as well as those that extend the question to topics such as the extirpation of the passions, violence and war, trauma, and sacrifice.
https://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/public-docs/Max-Weber-Kolleg/6-pdfs/Tagungen/2017/Conference_Erfurt_07_14_17-2.pdf
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